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Léolo is a 1992 Canadian coming-of-age fantasy comedy-drama written and directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon. The film tells the story of a young boy named Léo "Léolo" Lauzon, played by Maxime Collin, who e
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Léolo reads L'avalée des avalés by Réjean Ducharme.
Canadian historian George Melnyk discussed the film's possible statements on Quebec's "national identity crisis".
Ginette Reno, commemorated by wax sculpture at Musée Grévin Montreal, played the mother after initially rejecting the part for the dark subject matter.
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Se
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…and filmmakers adding it to the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time in 2015. The film also influenced the naming of the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, when site co-creator Senh Duong decided upon the site name while viewing the film. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign…
Fandango headquarters in Beverly Hills (home to Rotten Tomatoes)
Former IGN headquarters in Brisbane, California (home to Rotten Tomatoes during 2004–2010 IGN ownership)