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Bad Seeds (2016)

Bad Seeds poster
Original title
Les mauvaises herbes
Directed by
Louis Bélanger
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A struggling actor runs from his gambling debts and ends up helping run a marijuana farm. He has to adapt to a new way of life while hiding from the loan shark who wants his money.

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What happens

Bad Seeds (French: Les Mauvaises herbes) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Louis Bélanger and released in 2016. The film stars Alexis Martin as Jacques, a struggling actor from Montreal who is forced to flee the city because of his unpaid gambling debts to a loan shark (Luc Picard), and ends up a partner with Simon (Gilles Renaud) and Francesca (Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez) in a marijuana farm. The film's cast also includes Myriam Côté, Patrick Hivon, Stéphane Jacques, Yves Bélanger, Bénédicte Décary, François Papineau, Sylvio Archambault and Gary Boudreault. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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