The Grand Highway

About The Grand Highway

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby.

The Grand Highway is a 1987 drama film directed by Jean-Loup Hubert. The film is filed under rural area, summer vacation, country life, and tomboy.

Anémone stars as Marcelle, Richard Bohringer as Pelo, Antoine Hubert as Louis, and Vanessa Guedj as Martine. It runs 104 minutes and was released in March 1987.

The screenplay is by Jean-Loup Hubert.

Amarcord, King Jack, and 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous make useful companions to The Grand Highway, all filed under coming of age and small town. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 128 votes and it carries a R rating.