Starbuck

Name: Starbuck
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2011-07-27
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Patrick Huard, Julie Le Breton, Antoine Bertrand, Dominic Philie, Marc Bélanger

Starbuck (2011)

Timing: 1:43 (103 min)

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Video for the film Starbuck — STARBUCK Trailer German Deutsch 2012 FullHD

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Ken Scott

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Patrick Huard, Julie Le Breton, Antoine Bertrand, Dominic Philie, Marc Bélanger, Igor Ovadis, David Michaël, Patrick Martin, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Sébastien René
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Jasmyrh Lemoine, André Rouleau

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David Wozniak is a perpetual adolescent who discovers that, as a sperm donor, he has fathered 533 children. He is advised that more than 100 of his offspring are trying to force the fertility clinic to reveal the true identity of "Starbuck," the pseudonym he used when donating his sperm. To make matters worse, his girlfriend Valérie is pregnant with his child, but doesn't feel that he is mature enough to be a father.

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The film’s original title comes from the name of the famous Canadian Holstein bull Starbuck, who, in the 80s and 90s, became the father of more than two hundred thousand elite calves through artificial insemination.
The film grossed over 3 million dollars in the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec, becoming the highest-grossing local release there in 2011.
Director Ken Scott was deeply impressed by a song performed by one of the young actors during auditions. As a result, he not only gave him a role but also included the very same song in the film, where it appears several times.
For most of the young actors who played David Wozniak's children, these roles were their film debut.
Initially, Ken Scott and Martin Petit wrote a screenplay about a man who fathered 150 children. They considered it unlikely in practice but thought it could be exaggerated for comedic effect. After a few days of work, a story appeared in the press about a man who fathered two hundred children. Shortly after, rumors circulated in the press about a father of five hundred children. Ultimately, the screenwriters decided it was possible to increase the number of the main character's children to 533.