The Haven

The Haven (1997)

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Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.

Director: Michel Poulette
Writers: Benoît Dutrizac, Michel Poulette.

Casts

	Serge Dupire as Jacques Laniel
	Macha Grenon as Claire Ricard
	Jacques Godin as Thomas Colin
	Monique Spaziani as Maria Colin
	Tania Kontoyanni as Carole Osborne
	Jean-René Ouellet as Zachary Osborne
	Michel Forget as Gustave Blain
	Raymond Cloutier as Antoine Martineau
	Paul Dion as Édouard Rossi
	Carl Béchard as René Tremblay
	Maka Kotto as Jean Marcheur
	Dorothée Berryman as Cécile Sirois
	Marie-Claude Lefebvre as Nathalie Sirois
	Isabel Richer as Estelle Artaud
	David La Haye as Charles Bass
	Éric Cabana as Jean-Marie Tanguay
	Lenie Scoffié as Albertine Courvoisier
	Paul Buissonneau as Rosaire Courvoisier
	Caroline Néron as Sophie Beaulne Mercier
	JiCi Lauzon as Pierre Mercier
	Guy Provost as Juge Michaux
	Andrée Champagne as Mme Juge Michaux
	Bianca Gervais as Virginie Laniel
	André Lacoste as Garagiste
	Alberto Del Burgo as Johnny
	Aspasia Benavente as Mélina
	Martin Larocque as Archiviste
	Michael Scherer as Chauffeur
	François Trottier as Médecin
	Paul Savoie as Docteur Louis Roche
	Claude Léveillée as Maurice St-Cyr
	Yvan Benoît as Curé
	Francine Morand as Directrice de Théâtre
	Thierry Langerak as Collègue Français
	Marie-Claude Michaud as Serveuse dans le bar XXX
	Patrick Mathieu as Carlos Da Costa
	Pascal Contamine as Jeune clochard

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