The Grand Seduction (2013)

THE GRAND SEDUCTION  (2013)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Don McKellar
    Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Gordon Pinsent,
    Liane Balaban, Mark Critch, Lawrence Barry
A depressed seacoast town in Newfoundland gets a shot at economic salvation in the form of a brand-new job-creating factory. The catch: The village (technically a harbor) lacks a full-time physician. By chance and connivance, a doctor turns up, a young plastic surgeon with a particular fondness for cricket and cocaine, and the good citizens of Tickle Head see the answer to their prayers, if they can just persuade him to stay. Take one part "Local Hero", one part "Northern Exposure" and one part "Waking Ned Devine". Add a dash of "Rare Birds" and a sprinkling of "Cannery Row". Mix in a makeshift cricket pitch, a painful case of athlete's foot, a barrel of lies, some stray $5 bills and one dead, ice-cold fish. Pour on a gallon of cuteness and stir. What you get is "The Grand Seduction".