| Cruising Bar | |
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| Directed by | Robert Ménard |
| Written by | Michel Côté Robert Ménard Claire Wojas |
| Starring | Michel Côté Louise Marleau Véronique Le Flaguais |
| Cinematography | Pierre Mignot |
| Edited by | Michel Arcand |
| Music by | Richard Grégoire |
| Distributed by | Malofilm |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Box office | C$3.36 million (Canada)[1] |
Cruising Bar is a 1989 Canadian comedy film, directed by Robert Ménard.[2] The film stars Michel Côté as four separate characters – Serge, a shy nerd; Patrice, a drug-addicted film and television stuntman; Jean-Jacques, a pompous yuppie; and Gérard, an unhappily married man – who are each out on Saturday night hoping to hook up with a woman.[3]
The film's cast also includes Louise Marleau, Geneviève Rioux, Véronique Le Flaguais, Pauline Lapointe, Marthe Turgeon, Linda Sorgini and Tony Nardi.
The film was highly successful in Quebec, setting the province's then-record gross box office for its first week in theatres,[4] and later reaching the highest box office ever received in the province by a homegrown film[5] with a gross of C$3.36 million in Canada.[1] It was not Quebec's most successful film of the year overall; although its box office in Quebec exceeded that of Denys Arcand's Jesus of Montreal, the Arcand film was more successful in English Canada and internationally.[6]
The film received three Genie Award nominations at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990: Best Actor (Côté), Best Cinematography (Pierre Mignot) and Best Costume Design (Louise Labrecque).[7] It did not win any of those awards, but Jacques Lafleur and Pierre Saindon were presented with a Special Achievement Genie for Make-Up.[8]
A sequel film, Cruising Bar 2, was released in 2008.[9]
- ^ a b "Canadian Films At Home". Variety. November 19, 1990. p. 56.
- ^ "Michel Cote Scores Big; Cruising Bar's success has turned actor into a movie star". Montreal Gazette, December 2, 1989.
- ^ "Actor four-faced and proud of it". Toronto Star, November 15, 1990.
- ^ "Quebec comedy sets box-office record". Ottawa Citizen. October 17, 1989.
- ^ "Cruising Bar sets record". Montreal Gazette. November 21, 1989.
- ^ "Badly needed: A Canadian movie hit". Toronto Star. January 13, 1990.
- ^ "Arcand's Jesus leads Genie race". Toronto Star, February 14, 1990.
- ^ "Bye Bye Blues trails with three awards Jesus swept: an even dozen Genies". The Globe and Mail, March 21, 1990.
- ^ "Older but not much wiser; The guys from Cruising Bar are back after 20 years, and the laughs are bittersweet". Montreal Gazette, June 21, 2008.