The Crime of Ovide Plouffe

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)

Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe

Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.

Date of release
1984-08-29
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Denys Arcand

Casting

Interesting facts

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe, also known as Murder in the Family in its television run, is a Canadian film and television miniseries from Quebec. The project consisted of two parts: a two-hour theatrical film directed by Denys Arcand, which was released to theatres in 1984, and a six-hour television miniseries, which aired in 1986 and had four hours directed by Gilles Carle leading into the Arcand film as the final two hours.

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