Overview
1987 is a 2014 autobiographic movie of the director Ricardo Trogi starring Jean-Carl Boucher as Ricardo Trogi and Sandrine Bisson as Claudette Trogi. It is the sequel to the movie 1981, which came out in 2009. The movie puts emphasis on Trogi's teen years, when he was experiencing family problems and discovering his sexual identity. It also demonstrates the life of second-generation migrants.
A third film in the series, 1991, was released in 2018.
Plot
In 1987, 17-year-old Ricardo (Jean-Carl Boucher) is facing the usual teenage problems, such as having a crush on a classmate named Sarah, despite already having a girlfriend named Marie-Josée, and having a car. With his three friends, he spends time going to parties and getting drunk. When they fail to enter a bar after graduation, Ricardo then decides to open a bar for underaged teens.
On his first night of work, when he was supposed to have sex with Marie-Josée and lose his virginity, Ricardo breaks a BMW, putting the damage and repairs on the restaurant's budget, and is immediately fired; an argument with his father causes the latter to start making wine illegally. One night, Ricardo and his friends find an expensive radio in a car and they steal it to gain money and they become thieves. After being able to enter the bar, Ricardo gets unwillingly closer to Sarah.
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