An abbreviated transcription of Henri Laborit's remarks in the film is given in a note at the end of the following article: Edward Kunz, "Henri Laborit and the inhibition of action", in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, March 2014, vol. 16(1), pp. 113–117. The full screenplay was published in L'Avant-scène cinéma, no. 263, 1 mars 1981.
Vincent Canby, in New York Times, 17 December 1980, page C25: "... an exhilarating fiction... Almost any description of Mon Oncle d'Amerique tends to make it sound solemn though, in fact, it's immensely good-humored and witty." [Retrieved 9 June 2020]
