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The Alley Cat is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Jean Beaudin with Serge Dupire
The Alley Cat (1985)
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Add to a movie listThe Alley Cat (French: Le Matou) is a 1985 Canadian/French French-language drama film based on the novel of the same name by Yves Beauchemin.
Synopsis
Florent (Dupire) and his wife Elise (Spaziani) always had one dream: to own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky (Carmet), their dream becomes a reality, but only to quickly turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they have been tricked by him and lose everything.Actors
Serge Dupire
(Florent Boissonneault)
Jean Carmet
(Egon Ratablavasky)
Monique Spaziani
(Elise Boissonneault)
Julien Guiomar
(Aurélien Picquot)
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
(Monsieur Emile)
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