Puck Hogs (2009)

Puck Hogs follows a men's recreational hockey team, The Puck Hogs, through a brutally hilarious weekend tournament. In the tradition of the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, Puck Hogs is a ... See full summary »

Director:

Warren P. Sonoda

Writer:

Eric Lunsky

Stars:

Jim Annan, Jason Blicker, Liam Card

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jim Annan	...	Marco
Jason Blicker	...	Albert Mankins
Liam Card	...	Lance Cunningham
Joe Dinicol	...	Terry Bender
Katherine East	...	Luda Ulonov
Kelly Fanson	...	Tanya Lamacchia
Mark Forward	...	Jake Goldstein
Johnny Gardhouse	...	Eddy Monday
Jeff Geddis	...	Jeremy Jeffy
Geri Hall	...	Joyce Monday
Ashleigh Hubbard	...	Lisa Johnson
Gary Pearson	...	Referee
Howard Jerome	...	Carl Jeffy
Theresa Joy	...	Cynthia
Daniel Kash	...	Sergei Ulonov

Storyline

Puck Hogs follows a men's recreational hockey team, The Puck Hogs, through a brutally hilarious weekend tournament. In the tradition of the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, Puck Hogs is a hocku-mentary comedy about ice-prone boys turning into real-life men, and stick handling the puck over the goal line of life.

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Plot Keywords:

hockey | stripper | red panties | sex in car | porn shoot | 

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Taglines:

Wanna puck?

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Genres:

Comedy | Sport

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Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 June 2009 (Canada)

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Protocol Entertainment, Puck Hogs Productions, Téléfilm Canada

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Appalling abuse of Canadian tax dollars

Not only am I offended that such an awful movie came out of my country, it represents everything that is wrong with the Canadian movie industry and the ridiculous politics behind it.

The end credits reveal to me that the production of this catastrophe was supported by tax credits from the governments of Canada and Ontario, as well as by financial assistance from Telefilm Canada. I confess I had to Google the latter, only by an intense curiosity to find out who would contribute money to such an obviously bad film. Lo and behold I find that Telefilm Canada is a crown corporation of the government of Canada, "dedicated to the development and promotion of the Canadian audiovisual industry." (ref: http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/en/telefilm/telefilm/mission)

In other words, my hard earned tax dollars helped pay for this piece of crap! Telefilm Canada, in its vision statement, claims to be "funding high-quality productions," and further it "believes that the main measure of its success lies in the Canadian public's appetite for the works and products it funds." I'm not sure how the board and senior management team of this institution gauge key deliverables such as "high-quality productions" or "public appetite", but surely by any measure this has to be considered a failure of the highest magnitude.

Not only are my tax dollars hard at work funding this and other Canadian-made monstrosities that will never make it to my local movie theatre, the real "appetite" for these productions is from Canadian television networks such as Movie Central, who broadcast are forced to broadcast poor quality Canadian films in order to fill their quota of Canadian productions because of Canadian Content legislation.

Oh, in case you didn't figure it out, I really don't like this film. The cast is a veritable "who's who" of the Canadian television advertising industry, which tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the quality of acting, and the writing is beyond poor. Apart from my tax money, and 90 minutes of my time, being wasted, my biggest regret is that I can't give this movie a rating lower than 1.