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comedy film, released in 1993.
Gerald Pratley
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, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 79. The film was directed by
George Mihalka
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Career
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, and written by
Suzette Couture
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* Dentelles de Montmirail
*Communes of the Vaucluse department
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and
Pierre Sarrazin
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.
Synopsis
The film stars
Rémy Girard
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Acting career
Girard played the role of Rémy, the main character, who is dying of terminal cancer, in the Canadian film ''The Barbarian In ...
and
Pauline Lapointe as Léo and Ginette Lespérance, a married couple who, after facing one too many
Montreal
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winters, move their family to
Fort Lauderdale
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, where they buy a motel catering to "
snowbird
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s". However, their new business runs afoul of "Big Daddy" (
Raymond Bouchard
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), an established motel operator and local crime boss, who makes it his mission to drive the Lespérances out of business.
The Lespérances may, however, have an ally in Jay Lamori (
Jason Blicker
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), a local businessman of uncertain motives who may or may not be what he seems.
Award nominations
The film received eight
Genie Award
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nominations at the
14th Genie Awards
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, including
Best Motion Picture,
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* BA ...
,
Best Actor (Girard),
Best Actress
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(Lapointe),
Best Supporting Actor (Yvan Canuel),
Best Screenplay
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(Couture, Sarrazin),
Best Overall Sound (Dino Pigat, Lou Solakofski,
Douglas Ganton, David Appleby) and
Best Sound Editing
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(Marc Chiasson, Terry Burke,
Jane Tattersall
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, Sean Kelly, Drew King, Tony Currie, Diane Boucher).
[Craig MacInnis, "Does anyone dream of Genie?". '']Toronto Star
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'', December 11, 1993.
The film did not win any of the awards. It was, however, given the
Golden Reel Award as the top-grossing Canadian film of the year with a gross of
C$1.6 million.
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1990s French-language films
Films directed by George Mihalka
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1993 comedy films
1990s Canadian films
Foreign films set in the United States
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