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GOOD RIDDANCE

LES BONS DÉBARRAS

By Francis MANKIEWICZ, Réjean DUCHARME

FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World, CANADA

Drama - Completed 1980

A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.

- Year of production
- 1980
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- FRENCH, ENGLISH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 114 mn
- Director(s)
- Francis MANKIEWICZ, Réjean DUCHARME
- Writer(s)
- Réjean DUCHARME
- Cast
- Marie TIFO, Charlotte LAURIER, Germain HOUDE, Roger LEBEL, Gilbert SICOTTE, Louise MARLEAU
- ISAN
- 0000-0000-1291-0000-0-0000-0000-3
- EIDR
- 10.5240/7AE1-4D22-F3A8-A0E6-7E3F-H
- Producer(s)
- Marcia COUËLLE (Les Productions Prisma), Claude GODBOUT (Les Productions Prisma)
- Synopsis
- Set in a small rural town in the Quebec Laurentians, Michelle lives in an isolated house with her mentally-challenged brother Guy and her 13 year old daughter Manon. Together the three of them survive by running a small firewood business and performing other odd jobs. Michelle is frustrated with living in poverty and being the center of several people who demand her affection; her brother is like a second child who lives in his own world, his romantic obsession with their wealthy client Madame Viau-Vachon being an exercise in futility. Maurice, the local police chief, is her lover and Gaetan, a mechanic and family friend, would like to be. Most demanding of all is her daughter, who has an unhealthy emotional dependence on her. Precocious and uninterested in school, Manon is jealous of her Mother's suitors and angry at being left home to do chores and care for Guy. When an event occurs that threatens the emotional dynamic between Manon and her mother, she becomes obsessed with removing anything that stands in the way of her having an exclusive claim on her mother's love no matter what the cost.