''The First Weeks'' is a 1998 American

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written and directed by Alex Wright and starring

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and

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. It is a

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to the films '' Weeks'' and '' Love in Paris''.

Plot

A banker goes to Louisiana to land a deal with an eccentric billionaire but instead gets involved with the millionaire's wife, Mardi Gras, and a sinister cult.

Cast

as Matt Wade *

as Emily Dubois *

as Francois Dubois * Frederic Forrest as David Millman * Anna Jacyszyn as Robin Millman * William Keane as Joey Handler * Richard Durden as Laurence Garner *

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as Sheriff Marlon Tolette * James Black as Maurice Boudreau *

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as Remy

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