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31 January 1986 (USA)
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The ice... The fire... The fight... To be the best. more
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A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured...
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1 win
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Patrick Swayze's Most Memorable Movie Roles
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Patrick Swayze's Most Memorable Movie Roles
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Rob Won't Mix It Up
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rob Lowe | ... | Dean Youngblood |
 | Cynthia Gibb | ... | Jessie Chadwick |
 | Patrick Swayze | ... | Derek Sutton |
 | Ed Lauter | ... | Murray Chadwick |
| Jim Youngs | ... | Kelly Youngblood |
| Eric Nesterenko | ... | Blane Youngblood |
| George J. Finn | ... | Racki (as George Finn) |
| Fionnula Flanagan | ... | Miss McGill |
| Ken James | ... | Frazier |
| Peter Faussett | ... | Huey Hewitt |
| Walker Boone | ... | Assistant Coach |
 | Keanu Reeves | ... | Heaver |
| Martin Donlevy | ... | Referee Hannah |
| Harry Spiegel | ... | Thunder Bay Coach |
| Rob Sapiensze | ... | Thunder Bay Asst. Coach |
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110 min
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Iceland:12 |
USA:R (certificate #27972) |
New Zealand:M |
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Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
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Factual errors: The Memorial Cup, though a real trophy, is not awarded to the winner of a Best of 7 series. Nor, is it awarded to the OHL (Ontario Hockey League) Champion, as seen in the movie. Instead it is awarded to the winner of a Round Robin Tournament hosted by a single team (rotating between the 3 Leagues that make the Canadian Hockey League). With the Champions from the WHL (Western Hockey League), OHL (Ontario Hockey League) and the QMJHL (Quebec Major Junior Hockey League), as well as the Host team participating.
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Derek Sutton:
To the game and getting out of this hick town! Thank God there is a sport for middle-sized white boys.
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Referenced in The Chiefs (2004)
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Rob Lowe is way too much the matinée idol type to ever be believable as a hockey player. In fact that's the story of Youngblood, that of a player who values his looks a lot more than mixing it up on the ice to help win a game.
Try as I might I just can't see Rob Lowe as a hockey player, even one who won't get down and dirty. He's a speedy fellow on the ice and it's his speed that gets him a berth on a Canadian minor league hockey team, on which he has teammates like Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves.
The best scene in the film is where Rob Lowe gets literally raped by the unofficial landlady of the team, Fionula Flannagan. Apparently she gets first dibs on all the new hockey players in helping them keep their equipment in working order. Considering before Lowe, she had both Swayze and Reeves, I'd say she's quite the mechanic.
Rob has a more serious involvement with Cynthia Gibb who is the daughter of Coach Ed Lauter. But she's also daddy's little girl which doesn't help matters.
Our Canadian reviewers say that Youngblood is a gross distortion of Canadian hockey. I'm in no position to comment, but I've seen enough to know that it's a sport where violence is the norm and if you can't mix it up and are not willing to risk your good looks, you won't last too long.
Youngblood is now 23 years old and assuming Rob Lowe's character had a decent sized playing career, I guarantee that Rob today would not look like the fellow who worked for President Martin Sheen in the West Wing.