Geraldine's Fortune

Oct 22, 2004

★ 1.0

Overview

A grocery-store worker in a small Canadian town gets a chance to appear on a popular television game show.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Cité-Amérique

Grana Productions

Geraldine's Fortune Trailers

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Cast

Geraldine Liddle

Jane Curtin

Cameron Geary

Matt Frewer

Henry Liddle

Peter MacNeill

Tina Larose

Sheila McCarthy

Louis Owen

Patrick McKenna

Diede Murphy

Pascale Montpeti

Greta Jones

Jennifer Morehouse

Cilla

Marina Orsini

Josh Fisher

Dylan Smith

Rose Owen

Mary Walsh

Philippe Torreton

Nicole Maillet

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