-Based on the play "Les belles-soeurs" by Michel Tremblay, it became a musical play with music and songs by Daniel Belanger in 2008. It had a long run including in Paris. The librettist of the play and stage director transformed that musical into a film with more realist backgrounds.
Director René Richard Cyr also plays the travelling salesman who sells brushes to Desneiges Verrette. He is also the director of the musical play adapted from the original text.
Author MIchel Tremblay to whom the film and musical is based, has a role as a snack bar patron. His partner in the scene, Denise Filiatreault, was famous not only in featuring in Mr.Tremblay's plays and movies based on his books, but also was on the original cast of "Les Belles-Soeurs" at the end of the 1960s.
A portion of this movie, was also featured in the 1974 movie "Il était une fois dans l'Est", also written by Michel Tremblay and featured Denise Filiatreault, who shared the snack-bar scene with the author.