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Maman Last Call (2005)

Maman Last Call poster
Directed by
François Bouvier
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
G
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A career-focused journalist is surprised to learn she is pregnant. She must decide how this changes her relationship and her life.

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What happens

Maman Last Call is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2005. An adaptation of Nathalie Petrowski's 1995 novel, the film was written by Petrowski and directed by François Bouvier. The film stars Sophie Lorain as Alice Malenfant, a career-oriented journalist who has resisted marrying and start a family with her boyfriend Louis (Patrick Huard), but unexpectedly finds herself pregnant. Petrowski garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 26th Genie Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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