Detour (2009)
Détour
For twenty-two years, Leo Huff has been working as a secretary in the same office. Living with the same wife in the same suburban bungalow, with the same old furniture and is the same old daily routine, his life is a monotonous statement. Things take a sudden turn when Leo has to stand in for an engineer and give a presentation in a small rural community. There, Leo is swept away by Lou, a distressed young woman who takes him beyond the beaten track. This encounter spells a new beginning for Leo, a strange, chaotic journey filled with unexpected twists and turns.
- Date of release
- 2009-07-01
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Thriller
- Director
- Sylvain Guy
Casting
- Luc Picard — Léo Huff
- Isabelle Guérard — Lou
- Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge — Roch
- Suzanne Champagne — Maryse Huff
- Sylvie Boucher — Lyne Ventura
- Louison Danis — Mayoress Pauline Courchesne
- Jeff Andrews — Francis 'Frenchy' Fradette
- Émilie Labranche — Pissed environmentalist
- Roberto Mei — Léon Hivon
- Marie-Pierre Valay-Nadeau — Manon
- Sandra Lecouteur — Pro-development woman
- Gil Leveck — Angry guy
Interesting facts
Detour is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Sylvain Guy and released in 2009. The film stars Luc Picard as Léo Huff, an assistant to a wealthy businesswoman who is travelling to Le Bic, Quebec to attend a meeting on his employer's proposal to build a tourist attraction in Bic National Park. There he meets Lou, a young woman who needs his help liberating herself from her abusive boyfriend Roch.
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