A No-Hit No-Run Summer


A No-Hit No-Run Summer is a Canadian sports drama film, directed by Francis Leclerc and released in 2008.
Written by Marc Robitaille as an adaptation of his own novel, the film is set in the late 1960s and stars Pier-Luc Funk as Martin, a young boy who loves baseball and dreams of someday playing for the new Montreal Expos. He is disappointed when he is not chosen for the local youth baseball team by coach Gilbert Turcotte, but his hope is restored when his father Charles decides to organize and coach a new baseball team for the kids who didn't make it onto Turcotte's team.
The film received two Prix Jutra nominations at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, for Best Editing and Best Original Music.

Cast

Music

In addition to Fernand Lapierre's recording of the Montreal Expos theme song "Les Expos sont là", the film's soundtrack included a number of popular French and English songs from the era. Most were rerecorded as new covers by contemporary Quebec artists, although Robert Charlebois and Louise Forestier's "Lindberg" was included in its original version, and a few songs, including the theme to the television sitcom Gilligan's Island, were sung diegetically by the film's own cast.