TOUGH LUCK
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Tough Luck tells the comic story of how a big-money TV game show brings excitement and chaos to a sleepy little New Brunswick town, and shakes one woman and her family to their very foundation.
Loosely adapted from Michel Tremblay’s famous stageplay Les Belles Soeurs, the story revolves around Geraldine Liddle, a mild-mannered, middle-aged supermarket supervisor with one child, three sisters, an unemployed husband, and a small group of people she thinks are her friends. When Geraldine gets an opportunity to compete for $2 million on the hit game show Bring Home the Bacon, she suddenly becomes the centre of everyone else's greed, ambition and jealousy. Even before she's answered her first skill-testing question on TV, Geraldine is besieged with pressure from friends and family to share her potential earnings, and help those around her achieve their dreams. All of this only serves to highlight the fact that Geraldine hasn't yet figured out dreams of her own.
Tough Luck is about families, friendship, loyalty, large sums of money, and dreams that you sometimes hope never come true.
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John N. Smith
Director
John N. Smith began his career as a television producer, notably on the series The Way It Is and 51st State, for which he won an Emmy Award. He then went on to work at the National Film Board of Canada, where he produced and directed several award-winning shorts, including Bargain Basement and the Oscar-nominated First Winter. Keenly interested in fine arts, Smith produced a series of films about dance, including Acting Class and For the Love of Dance, each a Grand Prize winner at the New York Dance Film Festival. Smith’s work for television includes The Boys of St. Vincent (1992), which chronicled the physical and sexual abuse of young boys at a Church-run orphanage during the 1970s. The Boys of St. Vincent was acclaimed in Canada and around the world. As a director of feature films, John N. Smith’s credits include Dangerous Minds (1995), starring Michelle Pfeiffer, and A Dry, Cool Place (1998).
Super 16 mm
92 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
1.85
Original version in English Subtitled in French |
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Producers
Greg Dummett
Lorraine Richard
Coproducer
Sam Grana
Associate Producer
Perry Zimel
Executive Producers
Louis Laverdière
Vivianne Morin
Line Producer
Madeleine Henrie
Director
John N. Smith
Scriptwriter
Tim Burns
Director of Photography
Pierre Letarte
Editing
Gaétan Huot
Sound
Georges Hannan
Michel B. Bordeleau
Hans Peter Strobl
Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Art Director and Sets
Serge Bureau
Costume Designer
Aline Gilmore
Original music
Jeff Fisher
Cast
Jane Curtin
Mary Walsh
Matt Frewer
Sheila McCarthy
Patrick McKenna
Monique Mercure
Peter MacNeill
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Production
Cité-Amérique inc.
5800, boul. Saint-Laurent
Montreal Quebec
H2T 1T3
Canada
(514) 278-8080
(514) 278-4000
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Grana Productions Inc.
261 rue Lutz
Moncton New Brunswick
E1C 5G4
Canada
(506) 877-2252
(506) 877-2255
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Distribution – Canada
Films Séville
147, rue Saint-Paul Ouest
Bureau 200
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 1Z5
Canada
(514) 841-1910
(514) 841-8030
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www.sevillepictures.com
International distribution
Cité-Amérique International
4200, boul. Saint-Laurent
Bureau 1480
Montreal Quebec
H2T 2R2
Canada
(514) 843-3355
(514) 843-9574
info@cite-amerique.com
www.cite-amerique.com
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