Yvan Ponton
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Biography: Yvan Ponton is a Canadian actor, commentator and television host. Ponton has had a lengthy acting career which includes roles in a variety of major French-Canadian television shows and movies. He is most well known to English-speaking audiences for his role as Drouin in the 1977 film Slap Shot.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Farnham, Québec, Canada
Birthday: October 22, 1945
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Gender: Male
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Slap Shot
Overview: To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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Scanners II: The New Order
Overview: A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Overview: True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.
Genres: Romance Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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The Collector
Overview: The detective Maud Graham hides her sensibility behind the image of a strong and independant woman. She frequently offers her hospitality to a 16-year-old prostitute, Grégoire, a young man who became her friend. But when the teenager decides to invite a 12-year-old boy who is running away from home, Maud is near illegality. In addition, the detective has to deal with a serial killer who had already killed and mutilated many women. When she understands that the killer is very intelligent and organized, she elaborates a strategy to arrest him. There starts a dangerous game where the two teenagers that Graham is protecting will be implied. The killer is getting closer, revealing more and more of his madness.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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The Boys II
Overview: Our Boys are back a year after their last adventures. This time around, the players of Quebec's most popular garage league travel to Chamonix, France, to take part in an international amateur hockey tournament.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-12-11
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The Boys III
Overview: Three years have passed. The Boys are still a great hockey team in a garage league. Their coach Stan, in France for three years, returns from his trip to the delight of his troops. However, a wealthy businessman appears in the background and the players feel drawn to the lure of profit until the point where the Boys will face... the Boys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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The Boys
Overview: Every Monday evening, at the arena, eleven men get together to lovingly put on the jersey of the Boys, the hockey team of a "garage" league to which they belong. As Stan, their revered trainer, would affectionately say, they have the "puck" tattooed on their hearts. It doesn't matter if they are lawyers, policemen, mechanics or unemployed, as soon as they enter the locker room, everyone forgets their age, their work and their problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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The Boys IV
Overview: After four years of absence, the Boys are back on the ice! This time, the stake of the Canadian amateur tournament in which they participate is a game against the Legends of the National Hockey League.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-12-09
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Airspeed
Overview: When wealthy executive Raymond Stone sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole, and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other passengers are incapacitated, and Nicole is left on her own to keep the plane in the air, guided by an air traffic controller. Can the irresponsible and panic-stricken teen find a way to land the jet?
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-18
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Lance et compte
Overview: After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp curves around Mount Apica, catastrophe strikes. The bus slams into the mountain and half the players dies. Now the team faces its greatest challenge: rebuilding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-26
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Cold Front
Overview: An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-09
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Blind Trust
Overview: A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape?
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-05
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When We Were Boys
Overview: Christmas 1967, when hockey was played on outdoor rinks. The Boys form the parish's second team and are guaranteed participation in the Holiday Tournament as they are the hosts. Despite limited talent, they dream of victory. Off the ice, they will have to deal with all kinds of moments that one experiences at that age; some funny and some difficult. Together, however, they will face them. Together, they will try to grow, because this is how they have chosen to live: Together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-06
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The Boys - 25th Anniversary
Overview: The Boys - 25th Anniversary follows a night with Michel Charette welcoming the core cast members to his bar! Rémy Girard, Marc Messier, Pierre Lebeau, Patrick Labbé, Yvan Ponton, Patrick Huard, Roc Lafortune and Paul Houde discuss their experiences filming Les Boys!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-17
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Henri
Overview: A father is racked with guilt because he let his wife die in a boating accident, so that he could save his daughter. The girl is now in a hospital, recovering from the effect of losing her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
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Genres: Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-18
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Hold-up
Overview: Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-23
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