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Night Zoo (1987)
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This unconvincing French-Canadian thriller is a dawdler, with outbreaks of nastiness followed by listlessly arty longeurs. Marcel (Maheu) gets out of prison and goes to retrieve his loot, but a couple of bent cops are determined on their cut. Meanwhile, Marcel's girl Julie (Adams) has gone on the game, and his dad Albert (Le Bel) has a weak ticker which makes family reconciliation yet another priority, and our hero spends a lot of time blasting about on his motorbike. Dad's birthday party apart, it is determinedly sleazy. We are treated to Marcel getting forcibly sodomised in prison at the start, blown in an insanitary lav by one of the cops, Marcel's labouring rump as he attempts to reunite with Julie, and an improbable scene in a porno peep show in which the bad guys threaten Julie with a syringe. There are lots of empty threats featuring gunshots across the bows, and Marcel's loft is so spacious you wonder why he needs the money anyway.Author: BC
Cast & crew
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon
Producer: Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron
Cast: Gilles Maheu, Roger Le Bel, Lynne Adams, Lorne Brass, Germain Houde, Corrado Mastropasqua, Jerry Snell, Denys Arcand full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 115 mins
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