The Bottle (2000 film)

The Bottle (French: La bouteille) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Alain DesRochers and released in 2000.^[1] The film stars Réal Bossé and François Papineau as Réal and François, two longtime friends who decide to recover a beer bottle, containing a paper on which they wrote down their hopes and dreams for the future, which they buried 15 years earlier in the back yard of Antoine (Jean Lapointe), a grumpy old man.^[1]

The Bottle
French	La bouteille
Directed by	Alain DesRochers
Written by	Alain DesRochers Benoît Guichard
Produced by	Christian Larouche François Pouliot
Starring	Réal Bossé François Papineau Jean Lapointe
Cinematography	Yves Bélanger
Edited by	Éric Drouin
Music by	FM Le Sieur
Production companies	Cinepix YUL Films
Distributed by	Lions Gate Films
Release date	October 13, 2000 (2000-10-13)
Running time	107 min.
Country	Canada
Language	French

The film's cast also includes Hélène Loiselle, Pascale Bussières, Louis Champagne, Sylvie Moreau, Isabelle Brouillette and Jean-Pierre Ferland.^[2]

DesRochers received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 21st Genie Awards.^[3] At the 3rd Jutra Awards, Papineau was nominated for Best Actor, Loiselle was nominated for Best Actress, and Moreau was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.^[4]