Men with Brooms (2002)

Paul Gross stars as the leader of a recently reunited curling team from a small Canadian town. This offbeat comedy follows the team as they work through their respective life issues and ... See full summary »

Director:

Paul Gross

Writers:

Paul Gross (story), John Krizanc (story),

Stars:

James B. Douglas, Molly Parker, Paul Gross

1 win & 9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
James B. Douglas	...	Donald Foley
Molly Parker	...	Amy Foley
Paul Gross	...	Chris Cutter
Barbara Gordon	...	Eva Foley
Michelle Nolden	...	Julie Foley
Connor Price	...	Brandon Foley
Stan Coles	...	Minister
James Allodi	...	Neil Bucyk
Darryl Casselman	...	Ronnie
Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang	...	Nug McTeague (as Nug)
Jed Rees	...	Eddie Strombeck
Jane Spidell	...	Lilly Strombeck
Polly Shannon	...	Joanne
Peter Outerbridge	...	James Lennox
Kari Matchett	...	Linda Bucyk

Storyline

Paul Gross stars as the leader of a recently reunited curling team from a small Canadian town. This offbeat comedy follows the team as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the championship for the sake of their late coach.

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Plot Keywords:

championship | curling | coach | funeral home | father daughter relationship | 

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Taglines:

There's More Than One Way To Sweep a Woman Off Her Feet.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, sexuality and some drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Serendipity Point Films Inc [ca]

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 November 2002 (Turkey)

Also Known As:

Faceci z miotlami

Filming Locations:

Brampton Curling Club, Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$7,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$14,765 (USA) (20 September 2002)

Gross:

$4,239,767 (USA) (20 September 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Serendipity Point Films, Whizbang Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The line "It's not the size of the army, it's the fury of the onslaught" was originally used in another Paul Gross production - Due South: Asylum.

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Goofs

Throughout many of the games you will see that there are many rocks left in the house. The true way of counting score in curling is whoever has the closet rock to the button gets 1 point, then for every other rock that is closer gets another point until an opponent's rock is closer then any more in the house. During many of the games some houses were left with up to 5 rocks in the house with no opposing rocks. The scores should have been much higher in all the games, most notably in the final game.

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Quotes

Eddie Strombeck: It's not the size of the army, it's the fury of its onslaught.

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Crazy Credits

Bloopers are shown during the credits

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Connections

Featured in The Waldo Cumberbund Story (2005)

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Soundtracks

"East Side"
Performed by Smoother
Written by Andrew Franey (as A. Franey), Todd Knight (as T. Knight)
Courtesy of EMI Music Canada

User Reviews

This was an OK comedy, with realistic characters

OK, so this was not exactly high art. But let's be realistic, it is a movie with Paul Gross and Leslie Nielson in it. I was not expecting the English patient.... What was here was a good little comedy movie that poked fun at a lot of Canadian idiosyncrasies, had realistic characters and had a bit of fun with a known Canadian (and international) sport. It was nice that most of the characters had some sort of flaw, but still managed to sort things out and overcome. Better yet, it was nice to see Leslie Nielson actually act in a movie with a character who had depth instead of his normal two dimensional slapstick characters. Mostly, I enjoyed this movie because it was not a complete cast of perfect people, and it did have fun with a lot of Canadian stereotypes. It is always good when we can laugh at ourselves. Like I said, not high art but that was not what we were looking for.