George Roy Hill directs Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean and Lindsay Crouse in this ice hockey comedy where a failing team start to play dirty in the hope that a new buyer might stop them from being folded up.

Solid sports comedy. The right mix of boorish behaviour and lived in grit. Obviously Newman elevates this from being standard product. His cocksure interactions with the female characters are easily the best scenes. Maybe that is actually damning praise for the ice hockey sequences? Who knows…

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Perfect Double Bill: Miracle (2004)

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