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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 | |
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Stan Coles | ... | Minister |
| James Allodi | ... | Neil Bucyk | |
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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 | |
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. ... Written by Huggo
This movie was not as funny as I thought it would be at first. Yes, there's some laughs, but no genuine one. It's the Canadian answer to a movie like Independence Day or The Patriot!
The acting is not brilliant, even if Polly Shannon and Molly Parker are good. On a good note, It was nice to see some scenes shot in Sudbury, where I lived for a while, but besides that, the movie has no real value.
Out of 100, I gave it 70. That's good for ** out of **** stars.
Seen in Vaughan, at the AMC Interchange 30 Cineplex, on April 13th, 2002.