Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Raymond Bouchard | ... | Germain Lesage | |
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Dominik Michon-Dagenais | ... | Germain Lesage enfant |
Guy-Daniel Tremblay | ... | Rolland Lesage | |
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Nadia Drouin | ... | Simone Lesage |
Rita Lafontaine | ... | Hélène Lesage | |
Roc LaFortune | ... | Charles Campeau | |
Réal Bossé | ... | Denis Lacoste | |
Guy Vaillancourt | ... | Claude Larivée | |
Lucie Laurier | ... | Eve Beauchemin | |
Pierre Collin | ... | Yvon Brunet | |
Ken Scott | ... | Richard Auger | |
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Jean-Pierre Gonthier | ... | Réal Fournier |
Benoît Brière | ... | Henri Giroux | |
Marc Legault | ... | Marcel Sigouin | |
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Caroline Girard | ... | Lucie Giroux |
Ste-Marie-La-Mauderne is a small, depressed coastal village in Québec, where even fishing as an industry has died. Almost everyone is on welfare, including Germain Lesage. An option for most townsfolk is to move to the city, something that Germain refuses to do, even though his wife, Hélène, wants to at least consider it, just because her brother could provide her with a job. The Mayor, Réal Fournier, would sell out the townsfolk in his attempts to lure industry to the town, still with no takers. Part of their catch-22 situation in luring industry there is that there is no doctor, a condition made by one company owned by M. Dupré that would potentially locate his new plastic container factory there. As such, Germain and a few of his friends, Henri Giroux and Yvon Brunet, decide to reach out to every doctor in Québec to see if he/she can be enticed to move there. Due to a little police strong-arming, they get one nibble in the form of thirty-three year old Montréal plastic surgeon, Dr.... Written by Huggo
This is the story of a little island village much similar to many others that once relied on fishing for a living. But now almost every inhabitant checkin the post office on the first day of each month. At the promise that a factory will settle in if there is a permanent doctor on the island, they manage to get one and to keep him always with the naive ingeniosity of people from little village. Good and tender moments, laughing galore. Raymond Bouchard is great, and so is the rest of the cast.