Miss Boots
Miss Boots is a Canadian children's comedy film, directed by Yan Lanouette Turgeon and released in 2024. A modernized remake of the 1986 film Bach and Broccoli , the film stars Antoine Bertrand as Philippe, an opera composer who is entrusted with the care of his young niece Simone after the death of her parents, and is shaken out of his crippling social anxiety by the need to take care of Simone and her pet skunk Bottine.
The cast also includes Marilyn Castonguay, Mani Soleymanlou, Mateo Laurent Membreño Daigle, Benoît Gouin, François Chénier, Ellen David, Jean-François Provençal, Myriam Fournier, Louise Turcot and Dino Tavarone.
The film did not precisely replicate the original film's screenplay, instead introducing new elements such as Philippe's struggle with anxiety replacing Jean-Claude's simple negligence in the original, and other efforts to present more fully rounded adult characters.
Production and release
The film was shot in Montreal in fall 2023.It premiered at the Schlingel International Children's Film Festival in September 2024. It subsequently had a gala screening on November 18, 2024, at Montreal's Théâtre Maisonneuve, before opening commercially on November 29.