Mystery Alaska
Unfortunately marketed with the tagline “The Rocky of Hockey”
Russell Crowe, Burt Reynolds and Hank Azaria star in a movie about a small Alaskan town’s local hockey team, a bunch of amazing hockey players who get together every week for a game of pond hockey. The team is comprised of guys chosen by the town council. They can bump you whenever they feel like it, and in this small town, the hockey team is ALL.
Russell Crowe plays the town Sheriff, and the guy who just got bumped from Saturday’s game, because it was time to “bring up the Weeks kid” (give a much younger guy his chance).
Reynolds plays the stick-up-the-ass town Judge, ex-hockey player, and father to one of the current hockey players.
Azaria is a town outcast (apparently can’t play hockey) who left town and became a writer for Sports Illustrated.
Long and at times convoluted story short – An article he writes about the town hockey team results in the NY Rangers coming to Alaska to play them in a game of hockey. Do they accept the challenge, and risk being humiliated and disillusioned, or do they refuse the challenge, and continue to live safely within their own illusion of greatness? Well, it would be a pretty damn short movie, if they didn’t accept the challenge, wouldn’t it?
Crowe gets his shot at redemption when the town council asks him back to the team, Reynolds redeems himself in the eyes of his son, Azaria gets a little redemption in the eyes of the town.
And there were some decent hockey scenes.
Does it matter who wins the game?
Of course not.
Redemption, baby!!!!
With a fair amount of laughs, and some realistically human subplots.
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