Underplayed Gems

Honey, I'm in Love (2008)

Honey, I'm in Love poster
Original title
Le grand départ
Directed by
Claude Meunier
Genre
romance, comedy, drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
G
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A successful surgeon goes through a divorce and has to balance time with his kids and a new relationship with a younger artist. The story draws from the director's own experience of his marriage breakdown.

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What happens

Honey, I'm in Love (French: Le Grand départ) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Claude Meunier and released in 2008. The film stars Marc Messier as Jean-Paul Cardin, a successful surgeon who, following the breakup of his marriage to Céline Demers (Guylaine Tremblay), must juggle his commitments to his children and his new relationship with younger artist Nathalie (Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc). The film's cast also includes Patrick Drolet and Sophie Desmarais as Jean-Paul's children Guylain and Myriam, as well as Rémy Girard, Louis-José Houde, Catherine Trudeau and Cynthia Wu-Maheux in supporting roles. Meunier wrote the screenplay in part based on his own experience following the breakdown of his first marriage. The film premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 2008, before opening commercially in December. The film received two Jutra Award nominations at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, for Best Actress (Tremblay) and Best Sound (Patrick Rousseau, Marie-Claude Gagne, Louis Gignac). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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