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A failing French-Canadian fishing village (population 120) must find a doctor to practice in their town if they are to have any chance at wooing a big company to build a plant in their tiny community.
They succeed in luring a young doctor from Quebec to spend a month to see if he will decide to stay on. Aware of the quirks and foibles and assorted oddities of the village, they set about to change their ways to impress him.
That means these hulky former fisherman who love hockey have to aquire a taste for cricket -- or at least learn enough about it to help seduce Dr. Lewis (David Boutin). Some of those scenes, directed by Jean-François Pouliot, are hysterically funny.
They put the young doctor up in the "best" home in town -- the "modern" home owned by the bank clerk (who is often reminded that he can be replaced by a bank machine from the big city). The bank clerk and his family find other lodging for the month and the village women monitor the doctor's phone calls to his girlfriend and best guy friend to find out what the doctor likes (beef stoganoff) and what he doesn't like so they village people can either make sure he finds things he likes in the village or things are changed to suit him.
It's utterly charming and I highly recommend it! But I'll warn you -- don't take your eyes off the screen because there are so many wonderfully subtle things you don't want to miss.
Since this is a French-Canadian film, the dialague is in French with English subtitles. But it's worth the effort. I promise.
Not rated by MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
viewed May-2006
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