Overview
Rejeanne and Gilles are a married couple whose devastating setbacks--she is laid off from her job and he suffers a debilitating stroke--only begin to fester in the face of corporate greed and personal struggles when they attempt to start over in a new neighborhood.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Quebec
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Music
Music by Robert Marcel Lepage
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Bernard ÉmondScreenplay
- Original title
- Contre toute espérance
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 16, 2007
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- Canada
Cast
Guylaine TremblayRéjeanne Poulin
Guy JodoinGilles Dubuc
Gildor RoyClaude
René-Daniel DuboisLieutenant Allard
Serge HoudeJean-Pierre Deniger- Annick BergeronSuperviseure de Canaworld
- Jasmine DubéPropriètaire de la Maison
Éveline GélinasGérante World Mart- Josée GuindonOrthophoniste
Carmen SylvestreMadame Lefevre- Yael GuazoBonne des Deniger
Carmen FerlanPatrone de Traiteur- Martin ChampagneNouveau Propriètaire
- Caroline DardenneNouvelle Propriètaire
- Céline-Marie BouchardLectrice de Nouvelles
Jeanne Ostiguy
Tony Robinow
Isabel Dos Santos- Frédéric Angers
- Manon Vallée
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