Men with Brooms (2002)

Four men take time from their personal problems to reunite as a curling team and compete in a bonspiel that will restore their honour.

Director:

Paul Gross

Writers:

Paul Gross (story), Graham Wagner (story editor)

Stars:

Paul Gross, Leslie Nielsen, James B. Douglas

1 win & 10 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

Long Bay resident Donald Foley, a life long curler and more recent curling coach, has just passed away. He has requested that his cremated ashes be bored into a specific curling stone he has just had retrieved from the bottom of Long Bay. His will also has a non-binding codicil to reunite the last team he coached to curl in the Golden Broom Bonspiel in town, a Long Bay team which has never won and that team which was the closest ever to doing so. Donald wants that specific stone in which he is buried to be delivered as the final shot to sit on the button for the win for the Long Bay team. Beyond the four team members not having curled at all since their last bonspiel ten years ago, they each have issues in their lives which may make coming together as a team and winning, and curling in its entirety difficult or a non-priority. Lead Neil Bucyk's life is directed by his controlling wife Linda, a right she believes she has as his livelihood is in her family's business, a funeral home. ...

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Plot Keywords:

astronaut | felling a tree | snorkeling | curling stone | funeral | 

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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

Country:

Canada

Language:

English American Sign Language German

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:

CAD 1,040,000 (Canada), 10 March 2002, Limited Release

Opening Weekend USA:

$14,765, 22 September 2002, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$4,239,767, 22 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 University of Toronto Men's varsity curling team were used as stand ins for Paul Gross' team.

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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

James Lennox: What you gotta understand something about these guys. To them, money is more or less, uh, a hobby. Violence on the other hand is their real vocation.

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Crazy Credits

Bloopers are shown during the credits

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Connections

References Breaking Away (1979)

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Soundtracks

Hello Time Bomb
Performed by Matthew Good Band
Written by Matthew Good (as M. Good) & Dave Genn (as D. Genn)
EMI-April Music (Canada) Ltd./Dunharrow Music/Bridgeburner Music (SOCAN)
p. 1999 Universal Music
Courtesy of Universal Music Canada

User Reviews

How funny can men with brooms be?

I actually thought this movie was going to go somewhere. It showed promise; especially with the early part of the movie setting up the relationships among the various friends. But, it descended down into the oblivion that marks many, many mediocre movies using screwball comedy sketches.