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Score: A Hockey Musical

Score: A Hockey Musical

Michael McGowan, Mansfield, Canada

  • Country: Canada
  • Year: 2010
  • Language: English
  • Producer: Michael McGowan, Avi Federgreen
  • Executive Producer: Richard Hanet, Jody Colero
  • Screenplay: Michael McGowan
  • Runtime: 92
  • Programmes:

A seventeen-year-old hockey player becomes an instant star when he is signed by a junior league team. He soon discovers that stardom comes with a price – including the expectation to fight on the ice. Score unites Canada’s national obsession with the overnight success stories of the classic Hollywood musicals.

Canada,  Comedy,  Family Friendly,  Romance,  Sports

screening times

    • Thursday September 9
    • 6:30:00 PM
    • VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
    • Thursday September 9
    • 8:00:00 PM
    • ROY THOMSON HALL
    • Sunday September 12
    • 12:30:00 PM
    • VARSITY 8

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

He shoots, he sings! Michael McGowan’s Score: A Hockey Musical is a playful and joyously entertaining charmer of a film. Uniting Canada’s national obsession with the overnight success stories of the classic Hollywood musicals, this is Hockey Night in Busby Berkeley Land. Boasting young love, on-ice drama and cameos that range from Olivia Newton-John to Nelly Furtado to some surprises from Canadian icons, McGowan’s latest is a playful delight.

Tender-hearted Farley (Noah Reid) lives a carefree but sheltered life. Homeschooled by his organic-loving, New Age parents (Newton-John and Marc Jordan), his greatest pleasures are palling around with his lifelong best friend Eve (Allie MacDonald) and playing endless rounds of outdoor hockey with the local rink rats. When the eccentric owner of a junior league hockey team (Stephen McHattie) sees Farley for the talent that he is, Farley quickly takes the league by storm, turning his once idyllic life upside down.

An overnight sensation, he becomes swept up in endorsement deals and media attention. But when he refuses to fight in a game, Farley quickly learns that organized hockey is less like child’s play and more like the Old West, where defending one’s honour takes precedence over speed, skill and talent. When his hockey star career begins to threaten his bond with Eve, Farley must find a song in his heart that matches the tempo of his tumultuous new life.

As he did in his Festival and box office hit One Week, McGowan integrates iconic elements of Canadiana into his winning story with flair and passion. More than just a hockey musical, Score is a wry celebration of the qualities that define Canadians – kindness, worldliness, self-effacement and an ability to poke fun at ourselves. From its opening montage of shinny through the ages to the rousing closing number, Score: A Hockey Musical may be the most unabashedly populist Canadian film to come along in years. Game on!

Cameron Bailey

director bio

Michael McGowan was born in Toronto. After creating the stop-motion children’s television show Henry’s World in 2002, he wrote and directed his debut feature, Saint Ralph (04), which received the award for Outstanding Achievement in Direction from the Director’s Guild of Canada and a Writer’s Guild of Canada award for best feature film. It was also the winner of the 2005 Film Circuit People’s Choice Award and was named one of Canada’s Top Ten films of 2004. His other features are My Dog Vincent (98), One Week (08) and Score: A Hockey Musical (10).

full credits

Principal Cast: Noah Reid, Allie MacDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Stephen McHattie, Marc Jordan
Producer: Michael McGowan, Avi Federgreen
Executive Producer: Richard Hanet, Jody Colero
Cinematographer: Rudolf Blahacek
Editor: Roderick Deogrades
Sound: Sylvain Arseneault, David McCallum
Music: Jonathan Goldsmith
Production Designer: Tamara Deverell

Canadian Distributor: Mongrel Media    
Production Company: Mulmur Feed Co.
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