The Handyman

The Handyman — Plot

One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long, he continues the momentum when an ill-considered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence. Next, Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife, though this decision is hardly well thought out. In the meantime, a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman. L'Homme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for "Best Picture" at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival.

• Release date
• March 19, 1980
• Runtime
• 99 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance, Comedy
• Director
• Micheline Lanctôt

The Handyman — Cast

Jocelyn Bérubé Armand Dorion Andrée Pelletier Thérèse St-Amant Paul Dion Coquel'oeil Janette Bertrand Mme Lamarche, mère de Thérèse Gilles Renaud Armand St-Amant Marcel Sabourin Georges Poitras, chauffeur

D

Danielle Schneider Manon Lachapelle