Starbuck (film)


Starbuck is a 2011 Canadian comedy film directed by Ken Scott and written by Scott and Martin Petit. It stars Patrick Huard Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Antoine Bertrand, and Julie LeBreton as the main character, his friendlawyer, and his girlfriend, respectively.

In a 1988 prologue, David Wozniak is at a Quebec sperm bank making a donation. Twentythree years later, in 2011, he is a hapless deliveryman for his familys butcher shop, pursued by thugs whom he owes 80,000. His girlfriend Valrie is pregnant with his child. One day, David returns from work to find a lawyer from the sperm bank who tells him he has fathered 533 children. Of those, 142 have joined a class action lawsuit to force the fertility clinic to reveal the identity of Starbuck, the alias he used as a sperm donor.Davids friend and lawyer represents him as he tries to keep the records sealed. He provides David with profiles of each party to the lawsuit David tracks down several of them, finding moments for providing help or encouragement. One is a severely disabled young man he visits in an institution. At one point, tailing one of them, David finds himself at a meeting of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against him. David decides to identify himself, but after the thugs assault his father, he agrees with his lawyer to sue the sperm bank for damages. He wins the lawsuit, receives 200,000, and keeps his identity secret. ........

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