Junior Majeur

Junior Majeur
Film poster
Directed byÉric Tessier
Written byMartin Bouchard
Emmanuel Joly
Produced byChristian Larouche
StarringAntoine Olivier Pilon
Rémi Goulet
Alice Morel-Michaud
CinematographyTobie Marier Robitaille
Edited byAlain Baril
Music byChristian Clermont
Production
company
Distributed byLes Films Séville
Release date
Running time
115 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Junior Majeur is a Canadian sports drama film, directed by Éric Tessier and released in 2017.[1] A sequel to the 2012 film The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (Les Pee-Wee 3d: L'hiver qui a changé ma vie), the film centres on Janeau Trudel (Antoine Olivier Pilon) and Joey Boulet (Rémi Goulet), who are now playing for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and hopeful of getting chosen in the NHL Entry Draft, while Julie (Alice Morel-Michaud) has given up on hockey due to the reduced opportunities for female players at the higher levels of the sport, and is now a junior sports reporter with the local newspaper.[2]

The film's cast also includes Normand Daneau, Claude Legault, Patrice Robitaille, Madeleine Péloquin and Edith Cochrane.

The film premiered at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival on October 28, 2017,[3] before opening commercially on November 23.[4]

The film won the Public Prize at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.[5]