Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of their troubles...
Acting
Rémy Girard's exasperated everyman carries the chaos.
Production
Genuine 1993 Florida motel aesthetic, no filter.
Writing
Bilingual banter that actually lands both ways.
Director
George Mihalka
Rémy Girard
Leo
Pauline Lapointe
Ginette
Yvan Canuel
Pépère
Jason Blicker
Jay Lamori
Marie-Josée Croze
Carmen
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
Cyrille
Michael Sarrazin
Romeo Laflamme
Margot Kidder
Vivy Lamori
Raymond Bouchard
Big Daddy
Denis Bouchard
Sylvain Sylvestre
Gildor Roy
Rheal Larivière
Martin Drainville
Rheaume Lariviere
Carmen Ferlan
Lucille
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Captures a specific 1990s wave of Quebecois retirement migration to Florida, complete with linguistic tensions rarely depicted on screen.
Director George Mihalka also made My Bloody Valentine—this is his comedically warmer but equally tense small-town pressure cooker.
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