Men With Brooms

Starring:James Allodi, Bob Bainborough, Bobby Baker, Greg Bryk, Gord Downie, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois, Kari Matchett, Leslie Nielsen, Michelle Nolden, Peter Outerbridge, Molly Parker, Tim Post, Connor Price, Jed Rees, Polly Shannon, Gord Sinclair, Victoria Snow, Michael Stevens (XII)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

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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 are enough issues here to fuel a dozen movies and none of them packs the punch of a pint of Molson's beer, which is just the right tone for this off-center sports spoof, a story of little victories, big stones, and beavers on the move. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

Cute! (And the movie's pretty good, too.).......2007-04-13

Men with Brooms (Paul Gross, 2002)

I don't like sports that don't involve four-legged creatures or playing cards. So what is it about sports movies that always gets me? I don't know. Well, okay, I do in this case. I worship the ground Molly Parker walks on and will watch her in anything, even a movie about curling. Yes, curling, that odd Scots sport where you throw a rock and direct men with brooms to sweep the ground in front of it in various ways. I hadn't read any reviews of the movie before watching it, so I didn't know what the popular feeling about this movie was. I have done so since, and it seems that I'm quite in the minority on this, but I loved it.

The story concerns a curling team who dispersed a decade before on the cusp of winning the Golden Broom after team captain Chris Cutter (Paul Gross of the much-beloved TV series Due South) flaked out and walked off the ice. On the death of their old coach, Donald Foley (The Changeling's James B. Douglas), the four get together with Foley's family for the reading of his will, and he charges them to reunite and win the trophy. And thus Lennox, Eddie Strombeck (Jed Rees, recently seen in The Ringer), Neil Bucyk (James Allido of Glitter), and James Lennox (Peter Outerbridge, previously paired with Parker in the amazing Kissed) are back together and on the ice. There's also a subplot about Cutter and his father (Leslie Nielsen), whom they decide to recruit as a coach, and one about Cutter and Foley's two daughters-- Julie(Michelle Nolden, soon to be seen in the upcoming adatation of All Hat), who Cutter left when he left town a decade previously, and Amy (Parker), a recovering alcoholic who's been carrying a torch for Cutter all their lives.

Yes, it's all predictable. Yes, the dialogue could've used some work. Yes, the jokes are generally cheap. And yes, I realized the whole time I was being shamelessly manipulated. And I didn't care. I got to know these characters, even through all of the movie's flaws, and I got to be friends with them. And to me, that made it worthwhile. It's a minor movie, but it's a damn good minor movie. For pure popcorn entertainment, look no further than Men with Brooms. *** ½

looking.......2007-02-22

I have been looking for this size for a while. Ialso have been looking for the ones with elastic sides.

Paul Gross is Amazing!.......2006-11-12

Really good entertainment for everyone! Well written,acted and well directed. Easy to watch again and again! A Canadian Classic.

men with brooms.......2006-07-15

After their father dies suddenly on a boat at the beginning of the movie, Chris Cutter (Paul Gross) and three of his buddies get together after several years and play curling and beat the apposing team, as his father's dying wish. He also wanted to be cremated and his ashes be stored in a curling stone.

I really liked this movie and I recommend it to anyone who likes comedies.

Curling? Yeah, that's cool........2006-03-02

I bought this film for three reasons:

1. I like the work done by Paul Gross in the very much underrated "Due South" TV series (available on DVD in two pressings: U.S. and Canadian?).

2. I like Leslie Nielsen too.

3. I've heard of "curling."

I was a bit disappointed by the profanity in the film. Although I'm a Navy veteran myself I don't hang out with sailors much these days and the language seemed out of place. I also didn't care for the gratuitous smoking which did nothing for me to advance the story line. I found the character of the younger sister very compelling. I couldn't help wanting to see her succeed in life.

The humor is dark, I especially appreciated the opening moments of the film. This humorous film is a vehicle for a deeper message of redemption and relationships which may likely go right past some viewers in light of the blazing excitement of curling.

I would have loved to see Diefenbaker (any of the three of him) again with Paul and Leslie.

I'm glad I purchased this film.

Average customer rating:

Cute! (And the movie's pretty good, too.)
looking
Paul Gross is Amazing!
men with brooms
Curling? Yeah, that's cool.

Men with Brooms [Region 2]

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