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Men With Brooms is a romantic comedy in which four friends reunite after
ten years for their former curlingcoachs funeral. The foursome try
to sweep the past behind them to win the coveted Golden Broom championship
and bring honor and pride to their small home town. The film stars Paul
Gross, Molly Parker, Polly Shannon, and Leslie Nielsen, and is directed
by Paul Gross from an original screenplay by Gross and John Krizanc.
Ten years ago, Chris Cutter (Paul Gross) an ex-curling star throws away
his chance to win the Golden Broom and a chance at love, leaving his fiancé
Julie Foley (Michelle Nolden). By giving up his dream he has doomed his
other three teamates, Neil Bucyk (James Allodi), James Lennox (Peter Outerbridge)
and Eddie Strombeck (Jed Rees) to troubled and dissatisfied lives. But
Cutter's former Coach has thought of an idea that just might change all
their fates.
The
Coach dreams up a plan that involves reclaiming the curling rocks from
the bottom of Trout Lake but while raising the rocks, the Coach dies of
a heart attack. Returning for the funeral, Cutter grows nostalgic for
Long Bay and those he left behind. It is not until Cutter reads his coach's
will when he realizes that he must stick to the plan. Coach Foley wants
his ashes placed in the curling team's Copernicus stone; he wants Cutter
to re-form the Long Bay Curling Club team; and moreover, he wants them
to place his stone -- now his urn -- on the "button" (the curling
ring bull's eye) to finally win the Golden Broom.
Realizing that the team needs a coach in order to win, Cutter calls upon
an eccentric retired curling champion - his estranged father Gordon Cutter
(Leslie Nielsen). Thus, these four men with brooms, along with their coach,
set off on a comedic journey which takes them from frozen lakes to huge
arenas, searching for perfect stones, lost loves and second chances.
*The
original soundtrack of this motion picture features artists such as Our
Lady Peace, Tragically Hip and includes unreleased tracks from Sarah Harmer,
Kathleen Edwards and Chantal Kreviaziuk.
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