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Seducing Doctor Lewis
File:Seducing Doctor Lewis movie poster.jpg
Seducing Doctor Lewis film poster
Directed byJean-François Pouliot
Written byKen Scott
Produced byRoger Frappier, Luc Vandal
StarringRaymond Bouchard,
David Boutin,
Jean-Pierre Gonthier
Distributed byWellspring Media (USA)
Release dates
May 20, 2003
Running time
108 min
LanguageFrench

Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction) is a 2003 comedy film and the first film directed by Jean-François Pouliot. The script was written by Ken Scott. It won the "Audience Award" at 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Starring in the movie is Raymond Bouchard, Dominic Michon-Dagenais, David Boutin and Guy-Daniel Tremblay.

The filming location was the Quebec, Canada island of Harrington Harbour, population 300. The story is about a fishing village that has fallen on hard times and the film's producers found the island to look a little too pretty to fill this role, so they needed to make it look worse than it is, "distressing" it a bit.

Plot

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St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny harbour village in Quebec, Canada. The vanishing fish stocks have plummeted the once thriving community into financial decline. Therefore, the fishermen have had to rely on government welfare for eight years. One day, when a multinational company wants to build a plastics factory on the island, the locals see an opportunity for the village to be restored to its former prosperity. However, due to insurance regulations the factory cannot be built without the town having a resident doctor.

The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a police and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. Once there, the villagers need to devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis (Boutin) a local. But how to convince handsome, young, urbane Dr. Lewis to stay in that dull little spot on the map?

Reference

Hornaday, Ann (July 30, 2004). Hook, Line and Hoodwinkers. Washington Post (washingtonpost.com). Retrieved 03-06-2005.

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