Sisters and Neighbors!
| Sisters and Neighbors! | |
|---|---|
| French | Nos belles-sœurs |
| Directed by | René Richard Cyr |
| Written by | René Richard Cyr Michel Tremblay |
| Based on | Les Belles-sœurs by Michel Tremblay |
| Produced by | Denise Robert |
| Starring | Geneviève Schmidt Guylaine Tremblay Anne-Élisabeth Bossé Ariane Moffatt |
| Cinematography | Yves Bélanger |
| Edited by | Arthur Tarnowski |
| Music by | Daniel Bélanger |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | TVA Films |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Sisters and Neighbors! (French: Nos belles-sœurs) is a Canadian musical comedy film, directed by René Richard Cyr and released in 2024. Adapted from Michel Tremblay's influential stage play Les Belles-sœurs, the film stars Geneviève Schmidt as Germaine Lauzon, a 1960s housewife in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal district of Montreal who wins a million trading stamps in a sweepstakes; needing to paste them all into booklets to exchange for prizes, she invites many of her family and friends over for a "stamping party", only to face the petty jealousies of many of the participants.
The supporting cast includes Guylaine Tremblay, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Ariane Moffatt, Debbie Lynch-White, Véronic DiCaire, Valérie Blais, Pierrette Robitaille, Diane Lavallée, Véronique Le Flaguais, Jeanne Bellefeuille, Benoît Brière, Maxime Le Flaguais, Yves Jacques, Guillaume Cyr, Mégane Proulx, Steve Laplante, Isabelle Blais and Charles-Aubey Houde.
The film has also screened in some markets under the English release title Our Sisters-in-Law, but its English title is officially Sisters and Neighbors! per Telefilm Canada.
The film had a gala premiere on July 8, 2024, before opening commercially on July 11. It was an immediate hit, surpassing the $1 million benchmark for box office success in the Quebec market within one week of its release.