Gerry is a 2011 biographical film

Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic , is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their...

 shot in Quebec about rock singer Gerry Boulet

Gerry Boulet

Joseph Gaétan Robert Gérald Boulet was a Canadian rock singer. Most famous as vocalist for the Quebec rock band Offenbach, he also released two solo albums...

 (1946-1990) from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 written by Natalie Petrowski and directed by Alain Desrochers

Alain Desrochers

Alain Desrochers is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Desrochers studied first at St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu College in the early 1980s and then at Concordia University earning himself a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the end of the decade. He began his career by directing music videos and...

. The lead role of Boulet was played by Mario Saint-Amand.

Gerry was filmed in Montréal and other places in Québec starting 19 April 2010. The live concert scene where Boulet and his band Offenbach

Offenbach (band)

Offenbach is a Quebec blues rock band, initially active from 1969 to 1985. Following a successful reunion tour in 1996, the band released a new album in 2005.-History:...

 perform in Montreal Forum

Montreal Forum

The Montreal Forum was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Called "the most storied building in hockey history" by Sporting News, it was home of the National Hockey League's Montreal Maroons from 1924 to 1938 and the Montreal Canadiens from 1926 to 1996...

 required the presence of 3000 spectators.

The film was premiered in Boulet's home town Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu on 30 May 2011 and launched on Quebec movie theaters on 15 June 2011.

Synopsis

Gérald Boulet was in music from an early age. In the end of the 1960s, he founded the rock band Offenbach

Offenbach (band)

Offenbach is a Quebec blues rock band, initially active from 1969 to 1985. Following a successful reunion tour in 1996, the band released a new album in 2005.-History:...

 with his brother Denis. The group saw great success and peaked in the 1970s with the joining of Pierre Harel. After many years, Offenbach disbanded and Boulet started a solo career with great success in Québec. After many years of drug and alcohol abuse, he was diagnosed with colon cancer and died in 1990, at the age of 44.

Cast

• Mario Saint-Amand as Gerry Boulet
  Gerry Boulet
  Joseph Gaétan Robert Gérald Boulet was a Canadian rock singer. Most famous as vocalist for the Quebec rock band Offenbach, he also released two solo albums...
  
  
• Capucine Delaby as Françoise Faraldo
• Marc-François Blondin as Johnny Gravel
• Éric Bruneau as Pierre Harel
• Louis-David Morasse as Denis Boulet
• Eugene Brotto as Breen Leboeuf
• Mathieu Lepage as Willie Lamothe
• Madeleine Peloquin as Denise Boulet
• Roberto Mei as Wezo
• Jonas Tomalty as John McGale
• Stéphane Archambault as Alain Simard
• Nathalie Cavezzali as director
• Hugo Dubé as Doctor Jolivet