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Oct. 2, 2009
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Film Selection Changes for Next Tuesday Night

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - The Canadian Film Festival's selection for next Tuesday, Oct. 6 at MSSU has changed.

 

The series now will present the film Seducing Dr. Lewis (Canada, 2004; 109 minutes).at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6 in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall on campus. The film originally planned, Kamouraska, proved unavailable

Seducing Dr. Lewis is free and open to the public.

The film is a comedy about an impoverished French-speaking fishing community in eastern Canada. The community must lure a doctor from Montréal who, in turn, must convince an industry to open a factory there. Directed by Jean-Francois Pouliot, Seducing Dr. Lewis won an Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. It has been called "very, very funny."