Our Sisters-in-Law (2024)

Original title

Nos belles-sœurs

Directed by

René Richard Cyr

Genre

comedy film, musical film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

G

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1960s Montreal, a housewife wins a million trading stamps and holds a party to paste them into booklets. Her relatives and friends join in but bring their own petty jealousies.

livelysatiricalcomedicmusicaldomesticjealousperiodfemale-driven

What happens

Sisters and Neighbors! (French: Nos belles-sœurs) is a Canadian musical comedy film, directed by René Richard Cyr and released in 2024. Adapted from Michel Tremblay's influential stage play Les Belles-sœurs, the film stars Geneviève Schmidt as Germaine Lauzon, a 1960s housewife in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal district of Montreal who wins a million trading stamps in a sweepstakes; needing to paste them all into booklets to exchange for prizes, she invites many of her family and friends over for a "stamping party", only to face the petty jealousies of many of the participants. The supporting cast includes Guylaine Tremblay, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Ariane Moffatt, Debbie Lynch-White, Véronic DiCaire, Valérie Blais, Pierrette Robitaille, Diane Lavallée, Véronique Le Flaguais, Jeanne Bellefeuille, Benoît Brière, Maxime Le Flaguais, Yves Jacques, Guillaume Cyr, Mégane Proulx, Steve Laplante, Isabelle Blais and Charles-Aubey Houde. The film has also screened in some markets under the English release title Our Sisters-in-Law, but its English title is officially Sisters and Neighbors! per Telefilm Canada. The film had a gala premiere on July 8, 2024, before opening commercially on July 11. It was an immediate hit, surpassing the $1 million benchmark for box office success in the Quebec market within one week of its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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