The Guide to the Perfect Family

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The Guide to the Perfect Family
Le guide de la famille parfaite.jpg
Film poster
French Le Guide de la famille parfaite
Directed by Ricardo Trogi
Written byFrançois Avard
Jean-François Léger
Louis Morissette
Produced byLouis-Philippe Drolet
Félize Frappier
Starring Louis Morissette
Catherine Chabot
Émilie Bierre
Isabelle Guérard
CinematographyGeneviève Perron
Edited by Yvann Thibaudeau
Music by Frédéric Bégin
Production
company
KO24
Distributed byLes Films Opale
Netflix
Release date
  • July 14, 2021 (2021-07-14)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Guide to the Perfect Family (French : Le Guide de la famille parfaite) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Ricardo Trogi and released in 2021. [1] The film stars Louis Morissette and Catherine Chabot as Martin Dubois and Marie-Soleil Blouin, a married couple whose tendency toward helicopter parenting creates problems for Rose (Émilie Bierre), Louis's 16-year-old daughter from his prior marriage to Caroline (Isabelle Guérard). [2]

The film premiered theatrically in Quebec on July 14, 2021. [3] It has also been acquired for international distribution on Netflix. [4]

In its year-end review of Canadian film and television in 2021, the trade magazine Playback named it the Film of the Year. [5]

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