Night Zoo (1987)

Original title

Un zoo la nuit

Directed by

Jean-Claude Lauzon

Genre

drama film, crime film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An ex-con returns to Montreal and tries to reconnect with his aging father. He gets tangled in a dangerous scheme involving a corrupt police officer and a stash of money.

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What happens

Night Zoo (French: Un Zoo la nuit) is a 1987 Canadian film. It is directed and written by Jean-Claude Lauzon. It made its debut at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also the most successful film in the history of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's film awards program up to that point, winning a record 13 Genie Awards in every single category where it was nominated. The film garnered 14 nominations overall; the film's only nomination that failed to translate into a win was Gilles Maheu's nod for Best Actor, as he lost to the film's other Best Actor nominee, Roger Lebel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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