"Growing Up Can Be Painfully Funny."
The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
Social & External
The people behind it
Gilbert Sicotte
Narrator (voice)
Maxime Collin
Léolo
Ginette Reno
Mother
Julien Guiomar
Grandfather
Giuditta Del Vecchio
Bianca
Andrée Lachapelle
Psychiatrist
Denys Arcand
Director
Germain Houde
Teacher
Yves Montmarquette
Fernand
Lorne Brass
Fernand's enemy
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