North Station (2002)
November 8, 2002Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Catherine Florent
Bianca la fée
Benoît Brière
Le Père Noël
Xavier Morin-Lefort
Samuel
Fayçal Azzouz
Enfant palestinien
Lansana Kourouma
Howie
Mathieu Barsalou
Valérien Ouellet
Roxane Gaudette-Loiseau
Evelyne
Jean-Claude Lord
Director
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Release DateNovember 8, 2002
Original NameStation Nord
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 51m
Filming LocationsSaint-Alphonse-Rodriguez · Olympic Stadium of Montreal, Canada
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North Station (French: Station Nord) is a Canadian children's comedy film, directed by Jean-Claude Lord and released in 2002.The film is set in the town of North Station, where children's letters to Santa Claus (Benoît Brière) were delivered for many years and answered by a local family; after the death of his grandfather, Samuel (Xavier Morin-Lefort) and his girlfriend Évelyne (Roxanne Gaudette-Loiseau) decide to carry on the tradition, but Samuel goes missing and is presumed dead after trying to deliver the letters in a snowstorm, when in fact he has been saved and taken to Santa's workshop at the North Pole. When a letter arrives fifty years later from Satia, the granddaughter of Évelyne (Renée Claude), requesting Santa's help in curing Évelyne of cancer, Samuel becomes motivated to go out to reunite with his lost love.The cast also includes Lansana Kourouma, Catherine Florent, Genevieve Déry, Nathalie Simard, Gaston Lepage and Louis-Georges Girard.
The film was released in theatres on November 11, 2002.The film received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Art Direction at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003.