ThiefHott Too much of everything

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

ustinovquinnconnery This film has just run on TV in Australia (on SBS with sub-titles of course). I laughed out loud. Canada Francophone you do not have a monopoly in enjoying this delightful film.Here we are fanatics about sport generally and Cricket in particular: that part was even funnier. Perhaps some of the verbal jokes did not come through the sub-titles but there is a great deal of wonderful whimsy that does.The village setting is fascinating. It is geography unknown to this part of the world; I gather the real village is well known.The characters are greatly inviting, and with a light touch the story leaves the audience with the question about the pretty girl!

TxMike Usually we think of "seduction" as something sexual, but there is nothing sexual about the seduction being attempted here. Filmed in and around Harrington Harbour Island, Québec, Canada, this small fishing town of about 100 residents has gone very stale. The people are good people, but there are no jobs and most of them live off welfare checks. As the town mayor says near the end of the movie, "The money lasts for two weeks, but the humiliation lasts for a month." They have a chance to get a new factory located there, but with a few catches. The biggest hurdle seems to be getting a full-time doctor of the tiny island. Another is to convince the business guys that the small town really has over 200 people. This is a very inventive and entertaining movie, all the characters seem real.SPOILERS. One of the townsmen moves to the mainland to get a job as a police officer. In a routine stop he finds a drug on a man, who happens to be a doctor (plastic surgeon), and wittingly sends him to the small island for a month, alerting the mayor beforehand. They plan to seduce him into staying on so they can get the factory. They find out he likes cricket, so they read up, make uniforms, chalk out a field, and arrange to be playing cricket as the ferry boat brings him to the town. The only problem, they don't really know how to play cricket but they fool the doctor into believing they are cricket fans. During the month they tap his phone and two ladies record everything. They find out he eventually breaks up with his girlfriend, so he is free to stay. There is also a side issue with the contractor needing a $50,000 bribe. There is the frozen fish the doctor catches. The town meetings in the church. The townspeople moving from building to building to make the contractor think there are over 200 people in town. The charade eventually comes to light, the doctor is angry, but in the end agrees to stay on, the factory is built, making plastic household items, the last scene shows all the townspeople coming home after a full day at work, and an opening refrigerator is full of plastic containers of various food items.

Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) This is a sweet funny film and not to be missed.Small town Quebec is captured beautifully, full of characters that are depressed over the death of the fishing industry, reluctant to leave the town for work in the city and willing to do anything to get an industry to open a plant and provide employment.The shame of lining up and getting their welfare cheques every month is palpable.Part of the requirements of opening a manufacturing plant in the village is that it have a doctor and a population of over 200, neither of which this village has. The efforts to secure the doctor and convince the manufacturers of a non-existent larger population is the crux of the humour. That and the cricket scenes. A wonderful effort, beautifully filmed.8 out of 10.

daveb75 "La grande seduction" is not a bad film. In fact, it's a modestly good film. I laughed a lot during the screening, even though anyone could see where this plot is going, right from the start. And that storyline annoyed me a bit considering that I was constantly reminded of a Michael J. Fox comedy which has a very similar plot: "Doc Hollywood". I have never seen "...Hollywood" in it's totality by a lack of interest, but nonetheless, no viewer can ignore the resemblance. Still, the unique backdrop and setting, the colorful characters, and the non- pretentious nature of "La grande seduction", make this movie enjoyable. But it is not the masterpiece some pretend it is. It is well written, simply but skillfully directed, offers good performances by a great cast and can still make for good entertainment. But that is as far as it will go. And young director Pouliot never pretended he was making "8 1/2". He was aiming for a light comedy, and that is what you get. No more, no less.