Plot Summary:Thirty-seven year old narrates the story of a specific time from his childhood about which he still obsesses, it a time that changed his childhood. The year was 1981, when he, then eleven years old, was just starting grade 6. He was obsessed with material possessions, and as he felt his working class parents didn't buy those things for him he wanted so dearly, his most prized possession was the Consumers Distributing catalog from which he made his list of items he wanted, long at the top of the list a $400 calculator watch. These possessions he felt would impress the world. He largely dismissed his waitress mother Claudette, but he admired his father Benito. Although he at the time didn't know what his father did for a living, Ricardo believed he was smart enough to be a lawyer if he had the means to go to college, that belief largely by the stories Benito told of growing up during WWII in Italy. In 1981, the family, which included his adolescent sister Nadia, moved to ...
谁能了解十一岁少年的复杂内心,除了面对家家有本难念的经,还要打入新环境、加入班上最酷帅的小团体,以及偷偷爱恋班上的小美女,在自我感觉良好与现实生活的两方拉扯,且看1981那一年,嘴炮少年如何拯救他的青春期危机,找到真正的自我。 导演以幽默而世故的成人口白、魔幻搞怪的想像世界,重现一个大人都曾经历过的难搞岁月。 里卡多11岁的时候,他的家庭搬到了新的住处。那是1981年。他的父亲是意大利人,母亲是魁北克北岸人,他的姐姐只在乎她的猫:焦糖(Caramel)。这一次搬家,全家住进了新的别墅,里卡多也有了新的学校和新的朋友,总之就是新生活了。里卡多在班级里是新人…… 80年代魁北克怀旧戏剧。2009年出品。