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1987 (2014)

1987 poster
Directed by
Ricardo Trogi
Genre
comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
14A
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian filmmaker looks back at his teenage years in 1987. He deals with family issues and figures out his sexual identity as the child of immigrants.

nostalgicintrospectiveearthywarmcoming-of-agepersonallightheartedreflective

What happens

1987 is a 2014 French Canadian film that is a autobiography of the film's director, Ricardo Trogi starring Jean-Carl Boucher as Ricardo Trogi and Sandrine Bisson as Claudette Trogi. It is the sequel to the movie 1981, which came out in 2009. The movie puts emphasis on Trogi's teen years, when he was experiencing family problems and discovering his sexual identity. It also demonstrates the life of second-generation migrants. A third film in the series, 1991, was released in 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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