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Perfectly Normal is a canadien film of genre Comedy directed by Yves Simoneau released in USA on 12 april 1991 with Robbie Coltrane
Perfectly Normal (1991)
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Add to a movie listPerfectly Normal is a Canadian comedy film, released by Alliance Releasing in 1991. Produced by Michael Burns, Directed by Yves Simoneau from an original script by Eugene Lipinski and Paul Quarrington, the film starred Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley and Kenneth Welsh.
Perfectly normal won Best Original Screenplay in 1991 for Perfectly Normal. Perfectly Normal opened the Toronto International Film Festival; at that time called Festival of Festivals In 1991 to excellent reviews from Maclean's Magazine.
Perfectly Normal won a Genie for Best Original Screenplay. Perfectly Normal opened the Toronto International Film Festival; at that time called Festival of Festivals. Perfectly Normal received excellent reviews from Maclean's Magazine.
Genie Awards,
TIFF
Maclean's
Actors
Robbie Coltrane
(Alonzo Turner)
Michael Riley
(Renzo Parachi)
Deborah Duchene
(Denise)
Eugene Lipinski
(Hopeless)
Kenneth Welsh
(Charlie Glesby)
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