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and released in 2002. The film stars

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as Alice Tremblay, a single mother who becomes drawn into the

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that she is reading to her young daughter as a bedtime story. The cast also includes

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, Danielle Ouimet, Marc Béland, Pascale Desrochers, Myriam Poirier, Gordon Masten,

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and

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. The film received two

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in 2003, for

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(

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) and

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(

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).Odile Tremblay
"Dix nominations - Séraphin domine la course aux Jutra"
''

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'', January 29, 2003.

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* 2002 films 2002 comedy films Canadian comedy films Quebec films French-language Canadian films 2000s Canadian films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub