Directed by Bernard Émond

What do you get when you cross House, Grey’s Anatomy, and Northern Quebec? One hell of a mediocre movie.

Dr. Jeanne Dion (Elise Guilbault), an emergency doctor in Montreal, has sojourned up to Normetal, Quebec to try the elderly Dr. Rainville’s (Jacques Godin) very personal practice on for size. She quickly realizes how difficult the trials and tribulations of a small-town doctor really are.

What could indeed be a very engaging flick, however, fails to hook viewers into the hyper-character-driven plot that is ostensibly its core focus. Guilbault wears the same dead-pan expression throughout while there are so many deaths in the 90 minutes that—if I did my math correctly—there is almost nobody left in Normetal when the credits begin to role.

Big ups for Canada and Quebec, but unless you’ve got a fetish for the landscape of our home and native land, I’d sit this one out.