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Not content with his job as a bouncer at a local Beantown bar and a bit of an embarrassment to his accomplished family, Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) dreams of the kind of success enjoyed by minor league hockey goon Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber). When a chance encounter with an on-ice thug leads to a bloody fist fight that Doug easily wins, the coach of the Halifax Highlanders sees potential in this mammoth sized man who is only hampered by his lack of any hockey playing ability and his brother’s old figure skates. Standing up to the taunts of the other players, Doug manages to join the team, and with the encouragement of his hockey obsessed best friend (Jay Baruchel) quickly becomes a rising star. Soon he’ll have the opportunity to face off against Ross "The Boss" Rhea and perhaps finally land a girlfriend. Now - all he needs is to learn how to skate.
 
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL DOWSE
WRITTEN BY JAY BARUCHEL & EVAN GOLDBERG
PRODUCERS
DON CARMODY
DAVID GROSS
ANDRÉ ROULEAU
JAY BARUCHEL
IAN DIMERMAN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
JESSE SHAPIRA
MARK SLONE
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
BOBBY SHORE
EDITOR
REGINALD HARKEMA
COMPOSER
RAMACHANDRA BORCAR
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT
JAY BARUCHEL
ALISON PILL
MARC-ANDRÉ GRONDIN
KIM COATES
WITH EUGENE LEVY AS DR. GLATT
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“UNEXPECTEDLY FRESH. A LOVELY SURPRISE. For a movie about thugs beating the crap out of each other, ‘Goon’ is surprisingly sweet. There’s a “Slap Shot’ vibe to this bunch and that is a huge compliment. ***1/2.” – Christy Lemire, AP
“I LAUGHED SO HARD AT GOON, I ALMOST INJURED MYSELF. MY DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUE FELL OUT OF HIS CHAIR. A glorious throwback to those sweaty, profane, cheerfully violent underdog movies of the 1970s. I LOVED THIS MOVIE.” – Sean Burns, Philadelphia Weekly
“OFTEN HILARIOUS AND LOTS OF FUN. The comedy is true to its world. Seann William Scott is a funny and surprisingly endearing character.” – Mick LaSalle, SF Chronicle
“GOON IS THE FUNNIEST MOVIE I'VE SEEN SO FAR IN 2012. There’s humor and heart in every part of the film. I WAS SMILING AND LAUGHING MY ASS OFF FOR THE ENTIRE MOVIE.” – Jonathan Kim, Huffington Post
“IF YOU DON”T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HOCKEY, YOU’RE NEVERTHELESS LIKELY TO ENJOY ‘GOON’. The best thing about it is the rags-to-riches story.’ – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“REFRESHING. Behind the film’s brass knuckles are tender fingers. Mr. Scott and Mr. Schreiber convey an intelligence that belies their characters’ stupidity. Alison Pill makes something very special out of her role.” – Stephen Holden, NY Times
THE DIALOGUE IS WICKEDLY FUNNY. The film makes excellent use of Seann William Scott.” – Kyle Smith, NY Post
“EVERY BIT AS SHARP AND FUNNY AS ‘SLAP SHOT’. ***1/2.” – Robert Levin, AM New York
“**** AN UNEXPECTED TREASURE. Seann William Scott finally gets a chance to shine.” – Heidi Patalano, NY Metro
“VERY FUNNY. Goon looks set to skate alongside, if not slam into the boards, the sainted memory of Slap Shot as the movie that really gets the spirit of hockey’s animal attraction.” Peter Howell, Toronto Star
“GRADE A MINUS. The rare hockey movie to approach violence head-on. The movie’s real secret weapon is Seann William Scott.” – John Semley, The Onion
“FUNNY, PROFANE AND HAS THE RING OF TRUTH.” – Jeff Z. Klein, NY Times
“THE FUNNIEST MOVIE ABOUT HOCKEY SINCE ‘SLAP SHOT’.” – GQ
“’Goon’ prevails where other film farces fail thanks to a pucked-up love of a bloody game.” – Eric Hynes, Time Out NY
“****.A SURPRISINGLY STIRRING SPORTS MOVIE. It’s also a comedy in which just about everyone onscreen is funny. – A. A. Dowd, Time Out Chicago
“’Goon’ is not only rowdy, but also humane. Seann William Scott is exemplary.” – Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
“APPALLINGLY FUNNY. One of those rare films at which you catch yourself laughing and may feel immediately ashamed for doing so. AND THEN YOU LAUGH SOME MORE.” – David Noh, Film Journal
“Indeed rather endearing.” – Dennis Harvey, SF Bay Guardian
“A ONE OF KIND HOCKEY COMEDY/DRAMA THAT TAKES NO PRISONERS. Rating 9 out of 10.” - The Arrow, JoBlo.com
“EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT A HOCKEY FAN, YOU HAVE TO BE IMPRESSED BY ‘GOON’.” – Ed Douglas, Coming Soon
“CRITIC’S PICK. Seann William scott is the best comic Neanderthal in Hollywood and he’s found the perfect story.” J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
“CHEERFULLY CRASS, SUPRISINGLY WATCHABLE, BIG-HEARTED YET UNSENTIMENTAL” – The Guardian
“ENTERTAINING AS HELL. SLAP SHOT FOR A NEW GENERATION! A profane, pumped-up, playful punch-out of a hockey movie.” Adam Proteau / The Hockey News
“AN OPUS OF DIRTY JOKES AND BLOODY FIGHTS” – Sports Illustrated
"PAINFULLY FUNNY - MAKES YOU HURT FROM LAUGHING SO HARD" - Collider
“It might be the best hockey movie ever made. GOON had me with the first fight.” - Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette
“SWEET-NATURED BUT ARMED WITH A SOLID PUNCH.” – Robert Koehler, Variety
"An instant sports classic! Best hockey movie ever!" -Greg Miller, KONG-TV
“IT'S NOT JUST FOR HOCKEY FANS, BUT, BOY, ARE THEY GONNA LOVE THIS MOVIE. It’s actually quite a sweet, insightful, and powerfully effective little movie.” – Scott Weinberg, Twitch Film
“DELIGHTFULLY CRASS, PAINFULLY FUNNY AND JUST THE RIGHT MIX OF SWEETNESS, VULGARITY, AND OFFBEAT HUMOR. It’s not trying to upstage ‘Slap Shot’. It’s just trying to make you hurt from laughing so hard.” – Matt Goldberg, Collider.com
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