Picture Claire
| Picture Claire | |
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| Directed by | Bruce McDonald |
| Produced by |
Wendy Grean Robert Lantos |
| Written by | Semi Chellas |
| Starring |
Juliette Lewis Gina Gershon Mickey Rourke |
| Music by | Paul Haslinger |
| Cinematography | Miroslaw Baszak |
| Edited by | Michael Pacek |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country | Canada United States |
| Language | English French |
Picture Claire is a 2001 thriller film directed by Bruce McDonald of a screenplay by Semi Chellas. The film stars Juliette Lewis, Gina Gershon, Callum Keith Rennie, Kelly Harms, Camilla Rutherford, Peter Stebbings, and Mickey Rourke. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and also appeared at Cinéfest in Sudbury, where the film received Best Ontario Feature Award.
Lewis stars as Claire Beaucage, who gets in way over her head when she's in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Claire (Juliette Lewis) is a woman from Quebec who gets in trouble with the vengeful heroin dealers she helped finger. They retaliate by burning her out of her apartment. Frightened and in need of refuge, she heads to Toronto for to stay with ex-lover photographer Billy Stuart (Kelly Harms). She speaks only French, she understands little English and speaks even less, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time all too often. Claire has difficulties finding Billy but continues her search for him as the cops continue to search for her. She finally finds his gallery along with some photographs that he had taken of her in her sleep, he knew she hated having her picture taken. The exhibition of his work is opening and it seems to consist mostly of pictures of her.
Mickey Rourke played sleazy gangster Eddie and Gina Gershon portrays his tough-as-nails moll Lily Warden.
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