Starbuck: French-Canadian Film on a Guy's Life Decades After His Sperm Bank Visits
This film does involve cups, but instead of coffee it’s
filled with something completely different from latte. In life, we all want to
make some quick cash, just enough to maintain our lifestyles. That would be the
case if we were rather unambitious. Starbuck features one such character named
David Wozniak, played by Patrick Huard who is still working for his family
butcher business after decades (ideal slacker). Yes, this is a French-Canadian
comedy spoken in French, so you will need subtitles to understand the
blabbering. His life is about to change
when his girlfriend announces her pregnancy, news that he greets rather well,
surprisingly. But his irresponsible ways in the past are coming to bite his ass,
really bad.
Rewind a couple of decades to 1988, when Wozniak was still
working for his family butcher business with mounting debt. With threats ever-increasing from the mob he
owes money to, he did what any sensible man needing easy cash would do. He
started making donations to a sperm bank, for $35 a cup. This profitable enterprise
went off well, with Wozniak making 693 donations, amounting to a staggering
$24255 over 2 years, just by pleasuring himself. He did this under the alias of
Starbuck. Starbuck was a bull that created many more bulls through artificial
insemination in the 80s and 90s so his title is apt and suitable. But now, the gravity of the situation is
really getting serious with him facing a lawsuit from his army of children, because
his donations resulted in 533 pregnancies. His kids now wish to know who their
father is, so a class action lawsuit led by 142 of his progeny threatens to remove
his anonymity.
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The sheer ludicrous nature of the story does provide some
tremendous laughs. He tries to find out who his kids are, acting as a guardian
angel and he wrestles between the idea of coming forth or keeping his identity
secret. Another problem that faces him is his now pregnant girlfriend, and how
he plans to break the news to her.
This is by all means a must watch. But if the French dialogue
decides to irritate you beyond all means while you try to catch up with the
subtitles, you can wait for the American adaptation titled Delivery Man. It’s
due to be released in October 2013 with Vince Vaughn and Cobie Smulders (How I
Met Your Mother’s Robin) with Kevin Scott as director. Until then, you could
take a look at the original’s trailer.
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