Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)

You won't be disappointed!

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

whether or not you enjoyed the mild humor of Ned divine then you will like this movie also.The tame humor is disseminate all-round and spectators will be grateful for the modern ways formulated to keep the doctor happily deceived. They all join together to fool an outsider in order to money in. Both are set in a little coastal village where the inhabitants are fewer than prosperous and eager to advance their circumstance. This movie is not a madcap, zany side-splitter, but whether or not you want an gratifying, clever film, this is one of the better to come along. This movie has a heap of matchings with waking Ned divine.

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!

I enjoyed this simple but very charming movie that shows with humor the drama of people that live isolated and without a chance of getting a decent job.The movie has very good moments of original humorous dialogues, like the one when the mayor of the tron gets in somebody else's bed, that perhaps may not appeal to people that doesn't know much about life in isolated places of Québec and do not want to make the effort to imagine what it is like.The acting is very good and the characters very real. It is not easy to be able to recommend a Canadian movie but this one deserves to be watched.

Quebec has no ocean coastline but there are fishing villages on waters that have seen better days. In "Seducing Dr. Lewis" such a village is Francophone St. Marie-La-Mauderne, a tidy place where every able-bodied man who used to fish is on the dole and living, with their families, rather comfortably. Houses are neat and have stereo systems, late model TVs, microwaves and coffee makers. This movie could unwittingly start an exodus of unemployed Americans to our northern neighbor.The village seeks economic rejuvenation through the building of a plastics factory. Alas, the company's insurers require a resident physician and this place hasn't had a doc in a husky's age. No doc, no revitalizing plant.So they plot to get one, the leader of the cause being an elder named Germain Lesage (Raymond Bouchard). He's a clever guy - the only denizen who cashes two relief checks every month, one for himself and the other - made out to a dead guy - for himself too.A traffic violation encounter by a doctor possessing marijuana with a cop who once was the village's mayor gets Montreal plastic surgeon Christopher Lewis to sojourn with them for a month with the hope that he'll sign a five-year contract. Lewis is dewy-eyed David Boutin. Why a specialist who lives with a gal named Brigette (we never see her but her silky voice on the phone suggests he made a mistake leaving her in the big city) would want to spend a month as a G.P. in a godforsaken former fishing village isn't a director's carefully wrought mystery: it's a big hole in the story, a very unnecessary one.The villagers try to seduce Lewis by hook and by crook. Hook features most prominently a sham cricket team, Germain having somehow learned before his arrival that the medico is a fanatic follower of that sport. Crook is tapping his phone so as to learn more about him (anywhere in the U.S. that would be a felony. Not in Canada?).There's nothing unpredictable about the evolving and increasingly wild campaign to win the doctor over. What makes "Seducing Dr. Lewis" fun is the sprightly cast and the beautiful scenery. Boutin and Bouchard are fine in their roles. This is a welfare-dependent community as Disney would imagine it. So what.Will Dr. Lewis remain? What do you think?The director is Jean-Francois Pouliet who has a nice imagination but needs to learn to tidy up his stories. There's a difference between mystery and muddle.Subtitled, of course.8/10 (because I'm in a beneficent mood)