Mad Dog Labine (2018)

Directed by

Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr

Genre

docufiction

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl named Lindsay feels left out because her father will not take her hunting with her brothers. She and her friend Justine hang around their rural town and their lives shift when they find an abandoned winning lottery ticket.

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What happens

Mad Dog Labine is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr and Renaud Lessard and released in 2018. Set in the rural Pontiac region of western Quebec, the film stars Ève-Marie Martin as Lindsay Labine, a young girl who is feeling alienated because her father would not take her hunting with her older brothers; hanging out with her friend Justine (Zoé Audet), the girls' lives may be transformed when they unexpectedly find an abandoned winning lottery ticket. The film's cast also includes Charlotte Aubin, Emmanuel Bilodeau, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Antoine Pilon, Sébastien Ricard, Barbara Ulrich and Julianne Côté. The film premiered in October 2018 at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, and won the Grand Prix Focus Quebec/Canada. It went into general theatrical release in 2019. The film was a nominee for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and for the Prix Iris for Best First Film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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