Conquest

Conquest (1998)

Somewhere between nowhere and oblivion lies a small town with a big heart

British-Canadian light romantic comedy film set in a dying Saskatchewan town. Bank branch manager, Pincer Bedier, dreams of reviving the town when one day a beautiful young woman's car breaks down and she becomes stranded until it can be repaired. She is convinced by the banker to take on the duties at the local hardware store to pay for the parts for her car and soon a romance between the two develops.

Date of release
1998-05-14
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Director
Piers Haggard

Casting

Interesting facts

Conquest is a 1998 British-Canadian romantic comedy film set in the dying prairie town of Conquest, Saskatchewan, where the remaining residents are in their 70s and depressed. Thirty-two-year-old Pincer Bedier, the French-Canadian manager of the only bank branch in the town, dreams of reviving the town and its only cash crop, the edible pea pods of the Caragana bush. Daisy MacDonald, a young, beautiful and mysterious English or Australian woman, happens into town in her bright red Alfa Romeo sports car. When it stalls, she finds herself stranded indefinitely until the needed parts can be shipped in.

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