Celine bonnier and roy dupuis farmhouse

Filmed in Toronto by Bernard Zukerman Prods./Cinar, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., CBS Entertainment, Telefilm Canada and Ontario Film Development Corp.

Executive producers, Micheline Charest, Ronald A. Weinberg; producer, Bernard Zukerman; director, Christian Duguay; writer, Suzette Couture; Airing simultaneously in Canada and the U.S., dressed-up account of the travails of the French Canadian Dionne farm family after the quintuplets were born in 1934 speaks out loudly about commercialism, opportunism, gouging and greed.

It speaks, too, in commanding tones about exploitation.

Well-done telefilm penned by Suzette Couture doesn’t just cut, it saws. Elzire and Oliva Dionne (Celine Bonnier, Roy Dupuis, both far more appealing than the originals, speaking of huckstering), already blessed with five kids, become parents of quintuplets with the help of “the good country doctor,” affable Dr.

Allan Roy Dafoe (Beau Bridges).

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