The Favourite Game

February. 28,2003

Rating：

5.7

Genre：

Drama

Keywords：

Coming Of Age Poetry Philosophy

Trailer Synopsis Cast

As a kid, Leo thought he possessed, like a magician, the secret power to make things happen. As a young man, he certainly knows how to make things happen with women. But as his best friend Krantz would say to him, "Why do you always ask questions you already know answers to?" Leo believes firmly in what he invents from one day to the next. Images, impressions, stories fill his head. That's just how he is: life, for Leo, is just a game. Behind this childlike attitude, hides the very essence of his own life's quest.

JR Bourne as Leo / poet

Michèle-Barbara Pelletier as Shell

Cary Lawrence as Lisa

Sabine Karsenti as Tamara / Leo's ex-girlfriend

Daniel Brochu as Krantz / Leo's friend

Wyatt Bowen as Krantz / 10 years old

Bronwen Mantel as Leo's Mother

Robert Brewster as Leo's Father

Anne Day-Jones as Woman on Mount-Royal

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Reviews

TinsHeadline

2003/02/28

Touches You

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Mandeep Tyson

2003/03/01

The acting in this movie is really good.

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Rosie Searle

2003/03/02

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Juana

2003/03/03

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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