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Title: Starbuck (2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Patrick Huard | ... | David Wozniak / Starbuck | |
| Julie LeBreton | ... | Valérie | |
| Antoine Bertrand | ... | Avocat | |
| Dominic Philie | ... | Frère sombre | |
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Marc Bélanger | ... | Frère sympathique |
| Igor Ovadis | ... | Père de David | |
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David Michael | ... | Antoine (as David Michaël) |
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Patrick Martin | ... | Étienne |
| David Giguère | ... | Porte parole | |
| Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse | ... | Julie | |
| Pierre Mailloux | ... | Proprie café fe quartier | |
| Patrick Labbé | ... | Maître Chamberland | |
| Marie-France Lambert | ... | Infirmétre intervante | |
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Pascal Contamine | ... | Équipier #2 |
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Félix Brassard | ... | Julien |
At 42, David lives the life of an irresponsible adolescent. He coasts through life with minimal effort and maintains a complicated relationship with Valerie, a young policewoman. Just as she tells him she's pregnant, David's past resurfaces. Twenty years earlier, he began providing sperm to a fertility clinic in exchange for money. He discovers he's the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit to determine the identity of their biological father, known only by the pseudonym Starbuck. Written by Anonymous
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Starbuck (2011)
This might look like a bad movie—a silly idea and a goofy promo photo. And it's in French, so American audiences south of Canada are relatively small. But it's far more genuine than it portends. It's funny and warm. It's clever. It's improbable and impossible, sure, but that's part of the joyous fantasy of this weirdly feel-good film.
The premise starts pretty simply—an eager sperm donor (for money) finds out his sperm was used a lot. And with great success. Hundreds of babies were conceived. And now a group of over a hundred have banded together as a class- action group to demand his identity be released.
Because of the suit, he finds all this out and is shocked. Then, because the court has all the plaintiffs listed in detail, he is able to find the people, one by one. And so it goes. He meets. He does good deeds. He keeps his mouth shut. And in the process he begins to see the situation from the point of view of these 20 year old kids.
In this country you could picture Ben Stiller or similar comic actor taking the role. Here it is Patrick Huard, a Canadian French-speaking actor. And it turned into a hit (the most popular film in Quebec in 2011). Huard makes his character compelling, even as all these ridiculous things are happening around him. Watch it for his performance alone.
Or watch it for the warm and fuzzy aspects that are really a surprise given the comic plot. Fun and well done!