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Original title:Le piège américain
Category:Movie / Drama / Thriller
Released:2008
Director:Charles Binamé
Actors:Rémy Girard,Gérard Darmon,Colm Feore
Writer:Fabienne Larouche,Michel Trudeau
Budget:CAD 8,700,000
Duration:1h 50min
Video type:Movie

Rating 6.1: Votes 902

2008 Rémy Girard Gérard Darmon Colm Feore Charles Binamé

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It is the mid-1960s. The Cold War is raging. The world is still reeling from the assassination of JFK - but has yet to lose his kid brother Bobby. In the midst of all this, a reluctant hero by the name of Lucien Rivard becomes enmeshed in a web of global political intrigue and corruption. The United States, Russia and France are embroiled in a strategic battle over Third World natural resources. To keep the upper hand, each of their secret services has joined forces with various organized crime factions. Lucien is the go-between, travelling to the casinos of Havana, the night clubs of Dallas, the seedy heroin labs of Marseille, the tropical jungles of Indonesia and the urban jungles of New Orleans and Montreal. As tensions heat up, he becomes a secret weapon for a black ops organization over which he has no control - and an unwitting protagonist as a tragic chain of events begins to unfold before his very eyes.

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Author: WOGY

It's a little hard to follow unless you lived through the era. It may even be bit of a stretch linking the Canadian mafia to the JFK assassination. But this is a brilliant film nonetheless. It's a shame that so few people have seen it, judging from the number of hits on the site. There is a brilliant blending of historical news footage and the movie scenes. The film recaptures the "feel" of the fifties and sixties. Much of it is shot in in very harsh and contrasty colour. I don't know why it works, but it does. The cinematography with contrasty lighting and unconventional angles adds to the underlying tension of the script. Colm Feore, brilliant in everything from Trudeau to Hamlet, impresses me yet again by acting here in both English and French. Indeed the bilingual technique in the film breaks down the language barrier that so often separates Quebec cinema from the rest of the country.

Author: FireWater

If you recall the beginning of Oliver Stone's film JFK, a young woman is tossed out of a car on a deserted highway. She is picked up by State Police, claiming that she is aware of a plot to assassinate JFK. This movie picks up this strand where Oliver Stone leaves it. A perfect addendum to JFK, the film fills in many blanks and does not repeat nor contradict what has gone before.

By looking more closely at the CIA/Mafia links, the viewer gains a greater understanding of the background preparation concerning the hit on JFK and shines a far greater light of the CIA's use of the mob and Corsican hit men to do their work on American soil.

Also illustrates Canada's position as the ideal escape corridor for subversive activity. Definitely worth a close look.

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Rémy Girard	-	Lucien Rivard
	Gérard Darmon	-	Paul Mondolini
	Colm Feore	-	Maurice Bishop
	Joe Cobden	-	Jeffrey Cohen
	Janet Lane	-	Rose Cheramie
	Tony Calabretta	-	Jack Ruby
	Serge Houde	-	DEA Agent Thompson
	Dino Tavarone	-	Carlos Marcello
	Jeff Boudreault	-	Michael Caron
	Denis Gravereaux	-	Michael Victor Mertz
	Bill Lake	-	Herbert Hoover
	James Bradford	-	John L. McClellan
	Manuel Tadros	-	Joseph Valachi (as Manuel Tardis)
	Philip Riccio	-	Lee Harvey Oswald
	Sean Brison	-	Edward James Whalen

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