''Suzie'' is a 2009 French-Canadian drama film directed by and starring

Micheline Lanctôt Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician. Biography Lanctôt was born in Frelighsburg, Quebec. Her post-secondary education was in music, fine arts, and theatre at École de musique ...

Plot

Suzie (

), a 58-year-old

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driver suffering from depression, finds a 10-year-old

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boy named Charles (Gabriel Gaudreault) alone in the back seat of her cab one

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night. The boy's mother has left him with a note directing that he be taken to his father. Suzie takes Charles to his father, and thus gets drawn into a conflict between the boy's parents. Realizing the parents have no idea what to do with their son, Suzie leaves with him, and proceeds to go to an underground gambling den. She wins money at

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and buys two plane tickets to

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, intending to search for her daughter, who was taken to the country by her father twenty years ago.

Cast

as Suzie *Gabriel Gaudreault as Charles *

Pascale Bussières Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian actress. Life and work Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pascale Bussières first attracted attention as a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s 1984 film '' Sonatine''; however ...

as Viviane *Normand Daneau as Pierre *Marie-Yong Godbout-Turgeon as Caroline *Fayolle Jean as Cerfrère *Lulu Hughes as Constable *Artur Gorishti as Fatos *Suzanne Garceau as Psychiatrist

References

External links

* 2009 films Canadian drama films Films about autism 2009 drama films Films directed by Micheline Lanctôt French-language Canadian films 2000s Canadian films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub