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8 mar 2002 · Men with Brooms: Directed by Paul Gross. With James B. Douglas, Molly Parker, Paul Gross, Barbara Gordon. Four men take time from their personal problems to reunite as a curling team and compete in a bonspiel that will restore their honour.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Paul Gross
- 2002-03-08
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- Production
- Reception
- Soundtrack and Book
The movie begins with Donald Foley retrieving curling stones from a lake near Long Bay, Ontario. Foley dies after retrieving the stones, and a codicil to his will demands that the curling rink he formerly coached be re-assembled, and enter a bonspielto win the Golden Broom by placing a stone containing his ashes on the button. The team's skip, Chri...
Origins
The film began from a discussion that Gross had with producer Robert Lantos right after Due South was cancelled. Lantos had an idea for a hockey film: "I talked to (co-writer) John Krizanc about it, but it was too complicated with that number of characters. Besides, hockey is political. It's hard to talk hockey in this country since we think of it as our game, but it's largely owned by others."Gross solved those problems by replacing hockey with curling. In October 2000, Gross was still worki...
Pre-production and filming
According to Thom Best (the film's director of photography), the film had three weeks of pre-production, which mostly consisted of scouting locations in Ontario. Six weeks of principal photography took place in Toronto, in locations such as a studio space and the streets in Uxbridge. Four days of exteriors were shot around the mines in Sudbury, and two more weeks of principal photography occurred in Hamilton and Bramptoncurling rinks. Alliance Atlantis invested $1.5 million or more in the fil...
The film attracted $1.04 million in North American box office, opening on 215 screens in 207 theatres for a $5,024 per-screen average, the third highest among all North American releases for the three-day opening period starting March 8. It ended up grossing over $4.2 million in Canada – making it the top-grossing English Canadian film subsidized b...
A soundtrack album for the film was released, with songs by The Tragically Hip, Kathleen Edwards, The New Pornographers, and Our Lady Peace among others. A best-selling novelization by Diane Baker-Mason (ISBN 1-55278-263-8) was also published in 2002. Not included on the soundtrack is the opening theme, an arrangement by Jack Lenz of the Canadian f...
Watch Men with Brooms | Netflix. After the death of their coach, four curling athletes carry out his final wish by competing for their sport's greatest prize: the Golden Broom. Watch trailers & learn more.
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23 ago 2009 · 142. 104K views 14 years ago. Men with Brooms is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. Centered around the sport of curling, the offbeat comedy tells the...
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter (Paul Gross) disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley (Michelle ...
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20 set 2002 · Overview. A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes.
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes.
