Bon Cop Bad Cop


Release Information: July 24, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); July 24, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); July 24, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); July 24, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); July 24, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); July 24, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); July 24, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); July 24, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); July 24, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 3, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; Montréal (Fantasia: Theâtre Hall, Concordia) 20h00, closing film, world première; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; (thur 22h00) 131 screens (120 french, 11 voa); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 18, 2006; version angalise; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)


Funding Sources: Canadian Feature Film Fund (Telefilm Canada)

Budget: Budget: $8,000,000

Production Details


Executive Producer: Kevin Tierney; Kevin Tierney

116 minutes, 2005

BON COP BAD COP is the first Canadian feature film presented in both official languages - English and French. Bilingualism itself is at the centre of the film's comedy, which revolves around the concept of two cultures and languages clashing in a uniquely Canadian way. The film pokes fun at various Ontarian/English and Québecois/French stereotypes, playfully subverting the familiar dichotomies embodied in the film's two main protagonists: Martin Ward, an English-speaking policeman from Toronto, and David Bouchard, a French-speaking cop from Montreal. One is boring/uncool, the other is fun-loving/cool; one is calculated/uptight, the other is impulsive/spontaneous; one is polished, the other is rugged; one is refined, the other is macho; one is neat, the other is messy; one is working class, the other attended Upper Canada College; one is into health, the other could not care less about a healthy lifestyle; one presses his own trousers, the other wears jeans; one lives by the rules of law, the other has his own rules. This adrenaline-filled buddy-cop comedy starts when a dead body is found straddling the Ontario - Quebec border. The rule-bending francophone detective working for for the Sûreté du Québec and the proper, by-the-book anglophone detective from the Ontario Provincial Police are forced to join forces to solve the murder. The detectives soon find out that they are hunting a serial killer whose targets are linked by Canada's national pastime: hockey. They also realize that, beside the murders, something else needs to be resolved, and that is their own personal, professional and cultural differences, and with them, their bigotry and prejudices.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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