Hockey movies

[cheaptrick77]

I was going to start a FAVORITE HOCKEY MOVIE poll, but decided that I would be pointless, seeing how there is one AND ONLY ONE correct answer: Slap Shot !! :lol:

 

. . . instead, here are some lesser-known Hockey movies that look somewhat interesting. The movies will be accompanied by their allmovie.com review (if one exists):

 

Hockey Night (1984)

A film from Canada titled Hockey Night: are we at all surprised? This amiable little teen-oriented film is set in a small town where Hockey is King -- or, perhaps, God. Rick Moranis is in charge of a boys' hockey team, in dire need of playing talent. Enter Megan Follows, who turns out to be the best goalie the team has ever had. Just one teeny problem: Megan is a girl.

 

Boys On The Bus (1987)

A documentary about the 1986-87 Edmonton Oilers

 

Net Worth (1995)

This inspirational sports drama tells how Detroit Red Wings star Ted Lindsay stood up to the National Hockey League to prevent them from further exploiting the players

 

Les Boys (1997)

This Canadian hockey comedy broke box-office records in Canada. Stan (Remy Girard) runs the blue-collar tavern Chez Stan and also coaches Les Boys, an ineffectual amateur hockey team of bar-room buddies. Gambling debts lead to a risky game in which Stan will lose Chez Stan to mob boss Meo (Pierre Lebeau) if Les Boys are defeated by Meo's team of heavyweight thugs (followed by Les Boys II in 1998).

 

H-E-Double Hockey Sticks! (1999)

It turns out that New Jersey isn't the only hockey team tied in with the Devils in this made-for-TV comedy produced for The Disney Channel. Ms. Beezlebub (Rhea Perlman) runs a vocational school in Hades for demons in training, and she decides that it's time for one of her students, Grifflekin (Will Friedle), to head up to the surface for his first assignment. Dave Heinrich (Matthew Lawrence) is a rising star in professional hockey whose team appears poised to win the Stanley Cup. It's Grifflekin's job to get Dave to sign over his soul, but as he gets to know the young player, he's not sure if he wants to betray his new friend. His uncertainty isn't eased by fellow apprentice demon Gabby (Gabrielle Union), who has been sent along to keep tabs on Grifflekin. Real-life NHL stars Paul Kariya and Luc Robataille make cameo appearances as themselves, as does ESPN sportscaster Brad Nessler.

 

One Goal At A Time: U.S. Women's Hockey and the Olympic Spirit (1999)

A documentary about the 1998 Gold Medal-winning USA Women's Hockey Team

 

 

Now the job of locating these movies begins !!

[Boss302]

Man those would be great to have! Especially Boys On The Bus and Net Worth.

 

What about Slap Shot 2 - Breaking The Ice? I never saw it!

 

I think there might be a couple more older Canadian films but I can't recall them at the moment. I'll try and find some info on them.

[cheaptrick77]

Originally posted by Boss302

What about Slap Shot 2 - Breaking The Ice? I never saw it!

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME !!

 

Two words: Stephen Baldwin :ermm:

I think there might be a couple more older Canadian films but I can't recall them at the moment.

I taped a pretty decent movie off Turner Classic Movies a few years ago entitled King Of Hockey (1936) . . . the movie was two-and-a-half stars, at best, but it contained some excellent action footage of what Hockey "looked like" in the 1930s.

[Bobama]

better save The Mighty Ducks so you can remember what hockey looked like in 2004.

[casual observer]

Originally posted by BoBellCrew

better save The Mighty Ducks so you can remember what hockey looked like in 2004.

 

What? :unsure: Was that some sort of "quip." The ignorance displayed in your comment is only outweighed by its lack of wit. Pretty lame. You get an F in trolling. Please return to the politics board, where your ignorance is (unsurprisingly) equally as blunt. :whistle:

 

 

ON TOPIC: I haven't gotten around to seeing Slap Shot, but of the hockey movies I HAVE seen Miracle is definately on top. Was there something wrong with that movie I did not notice? I'm not a film aficionado so maybe there was something... too "Hollywood", maybe?

[cheaptrick77]

Originally posted by casual observer

I HAVE seen Miracle is definately on top. Was there something wrong with that movie I did not notice? I'm not a film aficionado so maybe there was something... too "Hollywood", maybe?

I hope there was no implication that there was something wrong with Miracle, because it was a FINE movie, but Slap Shot is still the gold standard of Hockey movies ... YOU NEED TO SEE IT !!! :)

 

Slap Shot = The Godfather

Miracle = GoodFellas

[cheaptrick77]

from proicehockey.about.com:

 

The Lost Hockey Movies

 

(by Jamie Fitzpatrick)

 

Some of the classics of puckfilm cannot be found at the video store.

 

If you head to the video shop in search of great hockey movies, good luck. A century of cinema has produced exactly one on-ice classic: Slap Shot from 1977. It is among a tiny handful of hockey movies that are worth a night in.

 

Generally, when Hollywood straps on the skates, the results are lame. Fans of a certain age might recall Youngblood (Rob Lowe as a young hotshot who learns to drop the gloves) or Ice Castles (Robby Benson as a young hotshot who falls for a blind figure skater). More recent titles include MVP: Most Valuable Primate. Need we say more?

 

While such horrors remain available on video or DVD, many of the hockey movies we really want to see have long since disappeared. Here are three that are nowhere to be found these days.

 

Maybe you will stumble upon one of them on the late show:

 

Face Off (1971) celebrates young love, bad dialogue, post-hippie pretensions and the manly pursuit of pucks. Billy is a rookie with the Leafs, Sherry is a pop singer wowing the Now Generation. His is a world of hard-drinking, hard-punching jocks; her's is a grab bag of bearded, dope-smoking artsies. Can love bridge the gap?

 

The film is written by Scott Young, who knew a thing or two about hockey players and pop stars. He was one of Canada's most respected sportswriters (elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988) and the father of rock icon Neil Young.

 

Spot the cameos! Toronto captain George Armstrong and groovy Bruins' star Derek Sanderson have speaking parts. Harold Ballard, the Leafs' creepy owner, appears briefly. The hero of the 1972 Canada-Soviet series, Paul Henderson, cuts the rug at a team New Year's party.

 

Memorable scene: Billy accuses Barney, Sherry's guitar player, of corrupting Sherry with drugs and rock and roll. Barney's reply: "Oh man. That's heavy."

 

King of Hockey (1936) stars Dick Purcell as Gabby Dugan, a pure-hearted lad soiled by the depravities of professional sport. Gabby can skate like the wind and make the babes swoon, so he's a little cocky. The veteran goalie, "Jumbo" Mullins, tries to keep the kid on the straight and narrow, but Gabby starts gooning it up on the ice and soon falls in with gamblers and mobsters.

 

Rumors of bribery and game-fixing lead to a confrontation between Gabby and Jumbo. The goalie ends the discussion with a crack to the head, leaving Gabby blinded. It's up to the lovely Kathleen to step in and set everything straight. Cue lesson in humility, miracle operation to restore sight, inspiring comeback and hero's redemption.

 

The idea of pro Hockey as a dark world filled with gamblers and wiseguys was hardly a stretch. In the 1920s and 1930s, the NHL family included William V. Dwyer, legendary rumrunner, associate of Dutch Schultz and Legs Diamond and owner of the New York Americans.

 

Memorable scene: Spotting Kathleen in the stands, Gabby deliberately takes a "foul" so he can go to the "penalty cage" and chat her up for a couple of minutes.

 

Gross Misconduct (1993) tells the true story of Brian "Spinner" Spencer, who played eight NHL seasons in the 1970s. Probing the grim underside of small-town Hockey culture, Spinner's tale is much stranger than fiction. This is the darkest of all hockey movies.

 

Growing up in a desolate lumber town, the hockey prodigy is driven to excel by a spiteful father. Brian's emotional immaturity and violent streak are valued commodities in the hockey world, helping him claw his way to the NHL with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

 

All is well for a couple of years, as Spinner buys a big car and a fur coat and shags legions of puck bunnies. But his dream soon fades to the drab reality of life as a journeyman pro, doing the dirty work for a series of mediocre teams. Spencer quits the game, retires to a squalid Florida trailer, gets into various scrapes with shady characters and ends up dead at age 38.

 

Highlighting the troubled father-son relationship, the film is built around one of hockey's most bizarre episodes. On a Saturday afternoon in his rookie year, Spencer calls his folks with big news: he will be interviewed tonight on Hockey Night in Canada. Camped in front of the TV that evening, Roy Spencer discovers that his local CBC television station is carrying a Vancouver Canucks' game instead of the Leafs. Drunk and furious, Roy heads to the CBC building with a gun, demanding a switch to his son's game. As young Brian Spencer proudly takes a seat for his first interview on national TV, his father is gunned down by police.

 

Memorable scene: An inebriated, seething Roy Spencer tears through the winter night in his pick-up truck, bottle in hand and shotgun at his side, ready for a final reckoning with the Great Canadian Dream.

 

We Would Love To See:

The Game That Kills (1937) - Who can resist the title? Or Rita Hayworth as the coach's daughter? And who will rescue her when she is kidnapped by the mob?

 

Idol of the Crowds (1937) - A retired Hockey star (John Wayne) returns to the ice because he needs money to enlarge his chicken farm.

 

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John Wayne as a Hockey player ??? :w00t:

 

[redrocket]

Do You Believe In Miracles, which was perfect.

 

And Mystery, Alaska, which I haven't watched.

 

Plus that horrid hockley player turned ice skater movie we're discussing on the other thread. That's all I've got.

[chsspiritguard04]

I liked Mystery, Alaska

[LoboFan07]

I agree. Mystery,Alaska was a great movie.

 

But out of them all I have to say Miracle was the best hands down.

 

Here at my Top 5..

 

1. Miracle

2. Mystery,Alaska

3. Slap Shot 2

4. Might Ducks 2

5. Slap Shot

[cheaptrick77]

Slap Shot 2 & The Mighty Ducks 2 over Slap Shot ??????????? :ermm: :w00t:

 

LoboFan07, old buddy .......... you are indeed killing me !! :lol:

[okietransplant]

sorry, i would have agreed with you about Slap Shot BEFORE Miracle came out. Now I have them ranked

 

1. Miracle

1a. Slap Shot

 

Depends what mood I'm in. To me, Miracle is now my favorite coaching motivation movie. Again.... Again....

 

Slap Shot is still great late nite movie-watchin material.;)

[LoboFan07]

Originally posted by cheaptrick77

Slap Shot 2 & The Mighty Ducks 2 over Slap Shot ??????????? :ermm: :w00t:

 

LoboFan07, old buddy .......... you are indeed killing me !! :lol:

 

Yes yes I know. But thats just the way I feel lmao. I like Slap Shot dont get me wrong. But thats just too old for me LOL! :whistle:

[Boss302]

I've always heard that spending too much time in Utah can goober up a persons judgement.

[LoboFan07]

That might be it also :updown:

[cheaptrick77]

Originally posted by okietransplant

Slap Shot is still great late nite movie-watchin material.;)

Slap Shot is great movie-watchin' material ANY TIME OF DAY !!! :D

[FatCat]

Slap Shot is the "CLASSIC". Gotta love the Hansen brothers. I thought of one: Youngblood staring Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze and I think Lisa Eichorn. Typical young stud moves in and chases the owners daughter.

[Guest]

Who here has actually seen Hockey Night? It's a very good movie...not on the level of Slap Shot or Miracle...but on par with Mystery, Alaska.

 

EDIT: Typo

[zanysportslady]

I love Slapshot - the hanson brothers are the best! I also love Mystery, Alaska. Great film. Miracle is an obvious choice. Youngblood is a classic.

Although, I have gotten rather attached, instead, to the game tapes that have been sent down from Canada. That Memorial cup final was a hoot to watch.

[cheaptrick77]

Originally posted by zanysportslady

Although, I have gotten rather attached, instead, to the game tapes that have been sent down from Canada. That Memorial cup final was a hoot to watch.

Man -- I wish I had a Canadian connection !! :lol:

 

I'd love to see how good the London Knights team was to beat the Syndey Crosby-lead Rimouski Oceanic squad.

[zanysportslady]

The tapes are great. Watching Crosby get frustrated. The penalties in that game! WOW!

[cheaptrick77]

^ Where have you gone zanysportslady? Our Hockey nation turns its lonely eyes to you :cry:

 

BOT:

 

 

*DVD UPDATE*

 

The lesser-known titles listed above that are available on DVD:

• Boys On The Bus
• Hockey Night
• Les Boys
• Net Worth

 

 

[Boss302]

Where have you gone zanysportslady?

 

Three years...seems like yesterday, don't it? :no:

 

[LoboFan07]

Wow. :whome: :whome:

 

I do not think Slap Shot 2/Mighty Ducks 2 is anywhere close to Slap Shot just for clarification! (it's actually on right now haha)

 

On movies...There's a new documentary film coming out called Pond Hockey. Looks like a pretty good one from the previews, I've seen.

 

Here's the website: PondHockeyMovie.com

[Boss302]

Wow. :whome: :whome:

 

I do not think Slap Shot 2/Mighty Ducks 2 is anywhere close to Slap Shot...

 

CORRECT! The sequels are not even in the same universe as the originals.