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A Kid

A Kid

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 31, 2016

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama

User Score

70%

Original Title

Le fils de Jean

Production Companies

Fin Août Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Item 7

Director

Philippe Lioret

Description

Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested in it. He is alone, in hostile territory…Filled with secrets, this story about one man’s coming to term with the foreign family he never knew he had is complex with interconnected themes such as masculinity, family, paternity and filial devotion coiling in the layers underneath.