Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

David Eidelman The group which saw this film with me loved it. It has a perfect combination of humor (sometimes slapstick, sometimes subtle), emotion, and suspense as to what will happen next. The scenery is also well done. Highly recommended--you won't be sorry you saw it! You are really pulling for the town to succeed, and the ending is great. You never know what happens till the very end. Each character has a unique and funny personality--kind of like all of the characters in Mayberry. The women in the town are especially hilarious, mainly during the scenes in which they listen to bugged conversations with the doctor to find out what things they need to do to make him fall in love with the town. A very cute film!

Claudio Carvalho When the fishes finished in the small fishing village of St. Marie-La-Mauderne eight years ago, the pride and joy of the place ended. The unemployed fishermen have been financially supported by the government welfare checks for two weeks and have been living with shame for the month. When a company raises the possibility of building a small factory in the village, the dwellers need only a full-time doctor living in the community to make the dream come true. But they do not find any doctor that want to move to St. Marie-La-Mauderne. When the thirty-three years old Montreal's doctor Christopher Lewis (David Boutin) has an incident in a highway, the former Mayor of St. Marie and presently highway patrolman forces him to stay in the village for a month. Meanwhile, the locals under the leadership of Germain Lesage (Raymond Bouchard) bug his telephone and plot a scheme to convince him to sign a five years contract with the village."La Grande Séduction" was a great surprise for me: I saw this DVD on sale and after checking IMDb User Rating of 7.4/10 (1,208 votes), I decided to buy it. I found an extremely delightful dramatic comedy, funny most of the time, but with a profound message about a contemporary worldwide problem: the unemployment. If you reader, wants to see a refreshing and awarded comedy, winner of fourteen awards and with eleven nominations, try "La Grande Séduction", and you may have also a good surprise and love it. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Grande Sedução" ("The Great Seduction")

George Parker "Seducing Doctor Lewis" tells of a French-Canadian fishing village which is on the dole and on the list of locations for a new factory. The latter would get the fishermen of the played out waters new jobs and off welfare, so the townspeople conspire to seduce a doctor to coming to their village with the hope he'll stay on as their resident physician. The result is a charming little comedy full of good natured and earnest characters and their inept attempts at deception and fraud which lead to the inevitable happily ever after fairy tale conclusion. Enjoyable, light hearted. mildly amusing family film fare, "Seducing Doctor Lewis" should appeal to anyone into Disneyesque films who can contend with subtitles. (B-)

Fat Freddy's Cat What is it about remote coastal communities that makes them so perfect for feel-good funnies such as these? There's something evocative and atavistic about the sea and fishing folk. Maybe it's somewhere in the roots of all of us, and we never fail to delight in seeing those apparently simple folk, apparently locked into a fading past, nevertheless conspire to outsmart the sophisticated city slicker who comes into their midst. I must go down to the sea again, and even on a balmy Perth summer evening at one of our beautiful outdoor cinemas I could almost smell the cod and kelp and feel the keen north Atlantic wind as it tore through Ste Marie la Mauderne.The plot was indeed clever and ironical. Dr Chris Lewis was NOT ultimately seduced by cricket, beef stroganoff, fishing, "lucky" $5 bills placed in his path, fusion jazz, nor even the lovely Eve, whom we all thought would prove the clincher in a Hollywood "boy gets girl" finale. No, not at all. He was seduced by the honest and genuine needs of a community who felt the need to resort to every degree of dishonesty to try and win his heart with all those things which ultimately proved trivial.Congratulations, Canada Francophone, this one was a real beauty. Dix points!