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The Bottle (2000)

The Bottle poster
Original title
La bouteille
Directed by
Alain DesRochers
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two longtime friends dig up a beer bottle they buried 15 years ago to see their old hopes and dreams. They have to deal with the grumpy old man who now owns the yard.

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What happens

The Bottle (French: La bouteille) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Alain DesRochers and released in 2000. The film stars Réal Bossé and François Papineau as Réal and François, two longtime friends who decide to recover a beer bottle, containing a paper on which they wrote down their hopes and dreams for the future, which they buried 15 years earlier in the back yard of Antoine (Jean Lapointe), a grumpy old man. The film's cast also includes Hélène Loiselle, Pascale Bussières, Louis Champagne, Sylvie Moreau, Isabelle Brouillette and Jean-Pierre Ferland. DesRochers received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 21st Genie Awards. At the 3rd Jutra Awards, Papineau was nominated for Best Actor, Loiselle was nominated for Best Actress, and Moreau was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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