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Men With Brooms (2002)
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Call it The Full Monty on ice. With tongue firmly in cheek, director-writer-star Paul Gross applies the old underdog sports-team formula to that great Northern obsession: curling. (You thought hockey was the national obsession? So did Canada.) You know the score: estranged teammates reunite to fulfill a dead man's last request, win glory for their fictional hometown, and earn back their hibernating self-respect. Square-jawed Gross recalls his Due South days as the amiable team captain, a boy scout with an impish streak. Leslie Nielsen turns down the usual goofball shtick to play Gross's crotchety, self-medicating father. There...
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There isn't a more Canadian sport than curling. We all have family members, teachers, friends who enjoy the icy glory of tossing rocks down a lane.
This movie attempts to play with the themes and plot devices of great American sport movies, but turn it into an epic curling event.
The opening with the squadron of beavers...
(complete Men With Brooms review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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