Men with Brooms (2002)

Director:

Paul Gross

Writers:

Paul Gross (story) &
John Krizanc (story) ...

Release Date:

22 November 2002 (Turkey)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport

Tagline:

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

Plot:

Paul Gross stars as the leader of a recently reunited curling team from a small Canadian town. This...

Plot Keywords:

Championship | Curling | Coach | Funeral Home | Father Daughter Relationship

Awards:

1 win & 9 nominations

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Quatre gars et un balai (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexuality and some drug use.

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M | Iceland:12 | Netherlands:12 | Canada:14A | USA:R | Sweden:15 | Sweden:7

Filming Locations:

Brampton Curling Club, Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Serendipity Point Films

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 (#1.9)" (1997).

Goofs:

Factual errors: 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.

Quotes:

Gordon Cutter: Where did you graduate from? Saddam Hussein school of physiotherapy.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Waldo Cumberbund Story (2005)

Soundtrack:

God

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.