Happy Camper (film)

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Happy Camper
French Camping sauvage
Directed bySylvain Roy
Guy A. Lepage
Written by André Ducharme
Luc Déry
Yves Lapierre
Produced byLyse Lafontaine
Guy A. Lepage
Tony Roman
StarringGuy A. Lepage
Sylvie Moreau
Normand D'Amour
CinematographySerge Desrosiers
Edited byYves Chaput
Music by Ramachandra Borcar
Production
company
Ciné-Roman
Release date
  • July 9, 2004 (2004-07-09)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Happy Camper (French : Camping sauvage) is a Canadian crime comedy film, directed by Sylvain Roy and Guy A. Lepage and released in 2004. [1] The film stars Lepage as Pierre-Louis, an investment banker who is forced into witness protection after witnessing a crime committed by Jackhammer, the leader of a local biker gang. [2] Assigned to a rural trailer park with the new name Marcel Paquette, he has to fight to stay alive after the gang organizes a plan to find him and retaliate. [3]

The cast also includes Sylvie Moreau, Normand D'Amour, Réal Bossé, Emmanuel Bilodeau and Yves Pelletier.

The film received three Genie Award nominations at the 25th Genie Awards, for Best Art Direction/Production Design (André-Line Beauparlant), Best Costume Design (Sophia Lefebvre) and Best Sound Editing (Guy Pelletier, Claire Pochon, Marie-Claude Gagné, Jean-Philippe Savard and Guy Francoeur). [4] At the 7th Jutra Awards, the film was presented with the Billet d'or as the year's top-grossing Quebec film, [5] and Linda Gordon was nominated for Best Hair. [6]

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References

  1. "Première de Camping sauvage". TVA Nouvelles, July 5, 2004.
  2. "Camping sauvage – Film de Sylvain Roy et Guy A. Lepage". Films du Québec, December 28, 2008.
  3. "Irreverent Quebecois camp". Montreal Gazette , July 9, 2004.
  4. "French films take the lead". The Globe and Mail , February 9, 2005.
  5. "Jutras go with the underdog". Montreal Gazette , February 21, 2005.
  6. "A lesser celebration". Montreal Gazette , February 19, 2005.