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Deaf to the City (1987)

Deaf to the City (1987)

Drama
Release Date: 1987, June 28
Directors: Mireille Dansereau
Countries: Canada
Production: Téléfilm Canada, Societe du Cinema du Quebec Maison de Quatres Arts
Cast: Béatrice Picard, Angèle Coutu, Pierre Thériault

Overview:

The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the place, earns most of her money as a stripper. She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an untreated brain tumor. Charlie, who is forever in and out of jail, is Gloria's sometime lover. A recent check-in is there hoping she can work up the courage to commit suicide, since her rich doctor husband ran off and left her. Another resident is Tim, who keeps company with his dog and his booze in equal measure. A schoolteacher comes by from time to time, hoping to do these people some good, but in choosing this lot to work with, she proves to be just as much of a loser as the rest of them.

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