Episode 84 – Sweeping Up Silly Men With Brooms

Men With Brooms

Men With Brooms, written and directed by Paul Gross is full of typical cliches, yet has a lot of heart. Sharing the screen with Leslie Nielsen, Molly Parker and a bunch of beavers four men reunite as a curling team to compete in a bonspiel to restore the honor of their former coach. This very Canadian based film has some quality despite it’s rough edges. Men With Brooms feels like a well done indie film. It is chock full of all the Canadian troupes and we are here for it. Leslie Nielsen does not disappoint in this role as the grumpy older coach that knows just what to do to motivate his team.

Chris Cutter: No, it’s not just a rock.

Amy Foley: No?

Chris Cutter: It’s forty-two pounds of polished granite, bevelled on the belly and a handle a human being can hold. And it may have no practical purpose in itself but it is a repository of human possibility and if it’s handled just right, it will exact the kind of poetry…

Source: IMDB.com in the Men With Brooms listing

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

• Silly 80s film feel
• Cool curling with casseroles at the dinner table
• Naked polar plunges
• Let’s get the gang back together
• Training Montage
• Better than I feared
• Taxidermy Moose
• Kilts

Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for helping out with our social media posts.

Next week’s film will be Mr. Holmes (2015) available on Kanopy with a library card

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