Racetime
La Course des tuques | |
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French | La Course des tuques |
Directed by | Benoît Godbout |
Written by | Paul Risacher Claude Landry Maxime Landry |
Based on | The Dog Who Stopped the War byRock Demers |
Produced by | Marie-Claude Beauchamp |
Starring | French version:
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Edited by | Robert Yates |
Music by | Dumas Martin Roy |
Production companies | CarpeDiem Film & TV Singing Frog Studio |
Distributed by | Les Films Séville Entertainment One |
Release date |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages | French English |
Budget | $11 million[1] |
Racetime(French:La Course des tuques) is a 2018 Canadian animatedadventurecomedy film directed by Benoît Godbout.[2]A sequel to the 2015 filmSnowtime!(La Guerre des tuques 3D),the film focuses on the same group of children organizing asledrace over their winter holiday.[3]
The film's English version premiered in theatres on January 25, 2019.[4]
Production
[edit]The film's French theme song, "Ensemble", was written and recorded byDumas,while the English translation, "Together", was recorded byCyndi Lauper.[5]Other songs included in the soundtrack were performed byAlex Nevsky,Garou,Ludovick Bourgeois, Alexe Gaudreault,Corneille,Simple PlanandLara Fabian.[3]
Box office
[edit]The film was listed as the eighth highest grossing Canadian film of 2018 as of December 20; however, by January 1, 2019 it had reached $1.7 million at the box office, surging to fifth place.[6]By March 14, 2019, the film had grossed $2.6 million in Canada.[7]
Characters
[edit]Characters | Voiced by | ||
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Original | International | Original | International |
Luc | Luke | Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier | Angela Galuppo |
Sophie | Mariloup Wolfe | Lucinda Davis | |
François Les Lunettes | Frankie Four-Eyes | Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc | Lucinda Davis |
Pierre | Piers | Sébastien Reding | Tod Fennell |
Zac | Mehdi Bousaidan | Noel Fisher | |
Charlie | Ludivine Reding | Dawn Ford | |
Lucie | Lucy | Sophie Cadieux | Angela Galuppo |
Maranda | Manolo | Anne Casabonne | Sonja Ball |
Jacques | Jack | Catherine Trudeau | |
Henri Leroux | Henry | Gabriel Lessard | Heidi Lynne Weeks |
Georges Leroux | George | ||
Chabot | Chuck | Gildor Roy | Don W. Shepherd |
Ti-Guy La Lune | Nicky | Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque or Aline Pinsonneault | Elisabeth MacRae |
France | Fran | Aline Pinsonneault | Jenna Wheeler-Hughes |
Daniel Blanchette de Victoriaville | Daniel Blanshire from Victoriaville | Esther Poulin | Holly Gauthier-Frankel |
References
[edit]- ^Cocherel, Par (June 6, 2018)."Le film" La course des tuques "est lancé".HuffPost(in French).Verizon Communications.RetrievedMarch 18,2019.
- ^"Tous les espoirs sont permis pour «La course des tuques»".TVA Nouvelles,November 26, 2018.
- ^ab"Course des tuques, La – Film de Benoît Godbout".Films du Québec,December 1, 2018.
- ^"Racetime prepares for the starting line in January".ToonBarn.October 26, 2018.RetrievedMarch 18,2019.
- ^"Cyndi Lauper en studio avec Dumas".TVA Nouvelles,December 6, 2018.
- ^"2018′s top-grossing Canadian films, box office".Playback,January 3, 2018.
- ^"Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films March 8 to 14, 2019".Playback.Brunico Communications.March 19, 2019.RetrievedMarch 20,2019.