Bonheur d'occasion (1982)
- Starring:
- Mireille Deyglun, Marilyn Lightstone, (more)
- Director(s):
- Claude Fournier
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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This heavy-duty literary drama is about the burdens faced by one family during the end of the Great Depression in the late 1930s and is based on a novel by Gabrielle Roy. The oldest daughter in the family works in a diner to help make ends meet, giving her paycheck to her mother and keeping her tips for herself. After a few encounters with a fast-talking womanizer at the diner she spends one night with him and ends up pregnant and abandoned. At the same time or in short succession, her father loses his job, they move to a miserable, damp location, and the youngest brother contracts tuberculosis -- numerous tragedies that ultimately stem from poverty. The pregnant daughter connives to get engaged to a decent, shy young man who then goes off to war. But because of their engagement, the daughter now has access to a new and large house, and in spite of everything, the family's fortunes may be improving a little. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Mireille Deyglun
- Michel Forget - Azarius Lacasse
- Liliane Clune - Jenny
- Charlotte Laurier - Yvonne
- André Chamberland - Invite party
- Dennis O'Connor - Phil Morin
- Martin Neufeld - Emmanuel
- Francoise Graton - Mme Letourneau
- Linda Sorgini
- Marilyn Lightstone - Rose-Anna Lacasse
- Pierre Chagnon - Jean
- Marie-Josée Gauthier - Invitee party
- Howard Ryshpan - Docteur Katz
- Claude Jutra - M. Letourneau
- Monique Spaziani - Marie Letourneau
- Michel Daigle - Octave
- Gabriel Gascon - Cure
- Director(s):
- Claude Fournier
- Writer(s):
- Marie Josee Raymond, Claude Fournier
- Producer(s):
- Marie Josee Raymond
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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