IMDb RATING
5.9/10
4.7K
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Four men take time from their personal problems to reunite as a curling team and compete in a bonspiel that will restore their honour.Four men take time from their personal problems to reunite as a curling team and compete in a bonspiel that will restore their honour.Four men take time from their personal problems to reunite as a curling team and compete in a bonspiel that will restore their honour.
- Awards
- 1 win & 10 nominations
Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang
- Nug McTeague
- (as 'Nug')
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Tragically Hip, one of Canada's most popular rock bands, appear in this film as team Kingston. All five members hail from Kingston, and four still reside there permanently.
- GoofsPaul Cutter's moral dilemma as a cheater is entirely contrary to the rules of curling. Canadian and world curling rules require players to call their own infractions. In the situations depicted in the film, "burning" a moving stone is an infraction by the sweepers, not the player delivering the stone. It's the responsibility of the front end, never up to Cutter, to call the burned stones.
- Quotes
Alexander "The Juggernaut" Yount: I've played on a lot of ice, all over this planet we call home, but I don't believe I've seen a better shot. It's been a pleasure.
James Lennox: "On this planet we call home?"
Chris Cutter: Hey, whatever.
- Crazy creditsDirectorial Consultant (Without whom we would still be on the ice in Brampton): Francis Damberger
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Waldo Cumberbund Story (2005)
- SoundtracksSilver Road
Performed by Sarah Harmer with The Tragically Hip
Written by Sarah Harmer
Pare Publishing (admin. by Cold Snap Music) (SOCAN/BMI)
p. 2001 Cold Snap Records
Courtesy of Cold Snap Records/Universal Music Canada
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Is there a cliche they didn't use??
I not only wanted to like this movie, I tried to like this movie. I failed.
The subject is curling, so you might think that the script would be as offbeat as the sport. Wrong. This is the most formulaic piece of claptrap I've seen in a long time. "A group of wacky misfits must get back together to beat the odds and win an emotional tournament while putting old ghosts to rest and reconciling with estranged loved ones." It could be the plot of practically every sports movie ever made, but they usually aren't done this dumbly.
Cliches abound: the feisty single mother harbouring a secret crush; the dopehead teammate who can't keep his girlfriends' names straight; the crusty old coach who is also one teammate's father; the henpecked husband who must eventually find his backbone; the dweeby couple trying to conceive a baby; and of course the male lead who must choose between two women (sisters, no less) and atone for past wrongs on the curling rink. YAWN.
Speaking of the copulating couple, whoever saw two people trying to have a kid do the act right in front of his male buddies? And by the way, a woman can only get pregnant once a month, so why does this couple hop on each other in every second scene throughout the whole movie? She'd come running in screaming, "It's time!" and he'd unzip and hump frantically for 5 seconds and then she'd run off again. Hi-lar-ious.
Poop jokes? You couldn't count how many.
I was so bored watching this thing that I started to root for the robo-curler they call Juggernaut. In spite of his expressionless face and mechanical movements, he was the liveliest thing in the movie.
I give it a 3 on 10. The outtakes at the end were the only funny moments I saw.
The subject is curling, so you might think that the script would be as offbeat as the sport. Wrong. This is the most formulaic piece of claptrap I've seen in a long time. "A group of wacky misfits must get back together to beat the odds and win an emotional tournament while putting old ghosts to rest and reconciling with estranged loved ones." It could be the plot of practically every sports movie ever made, but they usually aren't done this dumbly.
Cliches abound: the feisty single mother harbouring a secret crush; the dopehead teammate who can't keep his girlfriends' names straight; the crusty old coach who is also one teammate's father; the henpecked husband who must eventually find his backbone; the dweeby couple trying to conceive a baby; and of course the male lead who must choose between two women (sisters, no less) and atone for past wrongs on the curling rink. YAWN.
Speaking of the copulating couple, whoever saw two people trying to have a kid do the act right in front of his male buddies? And by the way, a woman can only get pregnant once a month, so why does this couple hop on each other in every second scene throughout the whole movie? She'd come running in screaming, "It's time!" and he'd unzip and hump frantically for 5 seconds and then she'd run off again. Hi-lar-ious.
Poop jokes? You couldn't count how many.
I was so bored watching this thing that I started to root for the robo-curler they call Juggernaut. In spite of his expressionless face and mechanical movements, he was the liveliest thing in the movie.
I give it a 3 on 10. The outtakes at the end were the only funny moments I saw.
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Box office
- Budget
- $7,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,245,870
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $656,619
- Mar 10, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $4,245,870
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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