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Heaven (1999)

Heaven poster
Original title
Le Petit Ciel
Directed by
Jean-Sébastien Lord
Genre
comedy drama
Country
France, Canada
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Montreal bar owner with cancer struggles to keep his failing business and his strained relationship alive. Up in heaven, guardian angels try to help while a distracted Jesus ignores his job.

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What happens

Heaven (French: Le Petit Ciel) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Jean-Sébastien Lord and released in 2000. The film stars Jocelyn Blanchard as Jacques Sauvé, the owner of a failing bar in Montreal whose relationship with his girlfriend Sophie (Garance Clavel) is also under strain as he is dying of cancer; meanwhile, in heaven, guardian angels are trying to help out under the supervision of Nebuchadnezzar (André Montmorency) and Ivan the Terrible (Dominique Lévesque) while Jesus Christ (Julien Poulin), who has been the boss ever since God took retirement, is too busy trying to find his new girlfriend's g-spot to pay much attention to the actual operations of the workplace. The film premiered on March 17, 2000 as the closing night gala of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. Poulin received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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