| Votez Bougon | |
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| Directed by | Jean-François Pouliot |
| Written by | François Avard Jean-François Mercier Louis Morissette |
| Produced by | Fabienne Larouche Michel Trudeau |
| Starring | Rémy Girard Louison Danis Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc Antoine Bertrand |
| Cinematography | Allen Smith |
| Edited by | Éric Drouin |
| Music by | FM Le Sieur |
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Running time | 97 min |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Votez Bougon is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Jean-François Pouliot and released in 2016.[1]
Based on the 2000s television sitcom Les Bougon, the film is a political satire in which Paul Bougon (Rémy Girard) enters politics, starting his own political party and catching a populist wave that results in his being elected as the new Premier of Quebec.[2] All of the actors from the television series reprised their original roles, with the exception that the role of adopted daughter Mao was recast.[3]
Although press coverage of the film noted some similarities to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump,[4] the film was more directly inspired by Quebec populist gadfly Bernard "Rambo" Gauthier.[5]
The film was a shortlisted finalist for the Public Prize, an audience-voted fan award, at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards.[6] It was the second most successful Quebec film of 2016 at the box office, behind The 3 L'il Pigs 2 (Les 3 p'tits cochons 2).[7]