Good Neighbours

On Tuesday, June 7, 2011, I went to see the movie Good Neighbours featuring Jay Baruchel and Scott Speedman. This movie takes place in the neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grace in Montreal.

The story is featured around the Referendum vote of 1995. Louise, a tenant in an apartment in NDG is obsessed with a serial killer on the loose. She works as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant.

Louise hangs out sometimes with a tenant named Spencer. He is in a wheelchair because he had an accident about a year ago where he lost his wife. They are both kind of interested in this serial killer that's on the loose in NDG.

A new tenant, Victor, moves into the building. He's an elementary school teacher who recently moved back to Montreal. He has no friends here and he wants to widen his circle of friends.

As more and more murders take place, Louise gets more and more freaked out and starts to ask Victor to walk her home from work.

With two characters that are not as important: Mme. Gauthier, who is the owner of the building, and Valérie Langlois, who has many issues and not a friendly neighbour, the story rolls along and we are kept guessing who can be the killer!

This movie is based upon the book Chère Voisine, written by Chrystine Brouillet, which I studied in my first year of university in my French class, so I kind of figured out the plot of the movie about fifteen minutes in. It was well done, nonetheless.