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Writers:
Tom King (story)
Ernest Kinoy (screenplay)
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16 March 1977 (USA) more
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Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice... more | add synopsis
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Back When They Killed Just Players, Not The Whole League... more (5 total)

Cast

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Michael Moriarty ... Gerry Miller

Kevin Conway ... George Graff

Meryl Streep ... Sharon Miller
Sully Boyar ... Tom Feeney
Jill Eikenberry ... Carole Eskanazi
Walter McGinn ... District Attorney Horace Meade

Mason Adams ... Bill Cavins
Paul D'Amato ... Dave Eskanazi
Ron Weyand ... Judge Reinhardt
Frank Bongiorno ... Rene Beauvois
Mel Boudrot ... Coach Bryant
Rudy Hornish ... Walters
Dino Narizzano ... Referee Merritt
Alan North ... Detective Forscher
George Petrie ... President MacCloud
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USA:98 min | Canada:98 min
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Back When They Killed Just Players, Not The Whole League..., 19 October 2004
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Author: animal_8_5 from Dundalk, Canada

Pretty eclectic video fare... that is if the rightsholders had made it available as such. Better than average for a 1979 made-for-television movie. High-brow cast too, with Michael Moriarty joined by Meryl Streep, Jill Eikenberry, Kevin Conway and Mason Adams.

The film explores violence in pro hockey through the eyes of an American who learned it as a game, not a blood sport. Bobby Hull clone, Paul D'Amato plays his talented Canadian teammate who provokes a moment of passion that changes their friendship, not to mention the game, forever.

I'm sorry. Twenty-four years later, I still can't feel any revulse over seeing the guy who played Tim "Dr. Hook" McCracken ("Slap Shot") get skewered by Michael Moriarty.

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