The Plouffe Family

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The Plouffe Family

1981

4h 19m

6.6(14 votes)

Drama

Overview

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

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Cast & Crew

34 members

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Gabriel Arcand

Ovide Plouffe

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Pierre Curzi

Napoléon Plouffe

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Juliette Huot

Joséphine, la mère Plouffe

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Émile Genest

Théophile, le père Plouffe

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Serge Dupire

Guillaume Plouffe

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Rémi Laurent

Denis Boucher

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Anne Létourneau

Rita Toulouse

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Denise Filiatrault

Cécile

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Paul Berval

Onésime Ménard

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Louise Laparé

Jeanne Duplessis

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Gérard Poirier

Curé Folbêche

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Stéphane Audran

Mme Boucher

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Daniel Ceccaldi

Père Alphonse

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Paul Dumont

Tom Brown

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Kate Trotter

Suzan Connely

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Donald Pilon

Stan Labrie

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Gilbert Comtois

Eustache Lafrance

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J. Léo Gagnon

Rosario le bedeau

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Amulette Garneau

Ramona

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Marc Gélinas

Jos Bonefon

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Gilles Renaud

Phil Talbot

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Georges Delisle

Père Lelièvre

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Jean Ricard

Cardinal Villeneuve

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Paule Verschelden

Bérangère Thibodeau

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Jean-Pierre Cartier

Aumonier Syndical

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Jean-Guy Deschamps

Charles Métivier

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René-Daniel Dubois

Receveur de Guillaume

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Claude Grisé

Docteur du Sanatorium

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Sylvie Lachance

Amie de Rita

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Denis Lavergne

François Thibodeau

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Steven Mendell

Police Monté

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Malcolm Nelthorpe

Sergent O'Neil

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Gilles Rochette

Sergent Sénécal

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Ghyslain Tremblay

Frère Léopold

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