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Synopsis: The Boxers from Brockton, MA and the Canadiens from Fredericton, NB are two teams at a 2003 Montréal junior hockey tournament. The Boxers almost didn't attend because of the rising global tensions due to the US initiated Iraq War. After arriving in Montréal, the Boxers wished they hadn't attended as they face anti-US sentiments time after time, some bordering on the potentially violent. This situation is especially troubling for the family of the Boxers' star forward Michael Carver, whose twenty year old brother Chris Carter gave up his own hockey life to enlist and is scheduled to head over to Iraq soon. One half of the Canadiens star first line, coach Neil Martin's twelve year old son Jordan Martin, doesn't like the treatment shown to the American team. Although distracted by his parent's crumbling marriage whose problems are due primarily to competing careers, Jordan decides to do his small but seemingly insurmountably problematic part in fixing the wrong that has been done. Regardl
Genre: Family
Director(s): George Mihalka
Production: Artisan Entertainment
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
PG
Year:
2008
91 min
83 Views


and Isles tonight.

- (All):
Yeah!

- So, me and Al are

going to the game,

while you guys stay at

the hotel and watch TV!

(Booing)

Wait, it turns out theres more

than 2 in here after all.

- Is that right?

- Yeah.

It seems theres enough tickets

for everybody on the bus!

(Cheering)

Hip hop

- Bush was going in no

matter what the Iraqis did.

What a mess.

- You dont mind

Saddam Hussein

having Weapons of

Mass Destruction?

- Seems theres always a reason

for America to bomb somebody.

What you looking for?

- My Game Boy.

- Top pocket in your day pack

inside your tuque.

- Yo, what are you doing?

Yo, give it guys! Come on!

(Boys yelling)

- Think we should settle

those boys down?

- With what? A fire hose?

Hip hop

- All right, all right.

Settle down, guys!

Theyre gonna turn us back at

the border for being too noisy.

(Laughing)

This is a polite country,

remember?

Mind your manners now.

(Boys yelling)

- Ow! What was that?

- What is it?

- A Skittle.

Hey!

You know what this

means, dont you?

- (Boys):
What?

- Total war and destruction!

(All yelling)

- What street?

- I dont know.

- I hear they put this cheese

sauce on the french fries here.

They call it a poutine.

- Gross!

- Give me some of

that puke-tine!

- Thats disgusting!

- Its...

I thought I saw a

sign that said...

No, no! Dont go down here.

Its one-way.

We cant turn around here.

- Were lost, arent we?

- Absolutely not.

- Yeah, were lost.

(Boys laughing)

- Coach, whats going on?

Whats going on?

Its some kind of...

- Coach?

(Protestors yelling)

(Protestors yelling)

- Oh, crap!

- Holy!

- (Diane):
Stay in your seats!

Sit down!

- Whats going on?

- Get us out of here!

- We cant move!

- Everybody stay seated!

- Its gonna be OK.

Just keep your heads down.

Stay away from the windows.

They cant see inside.

Well get out of here.

(Protestors yelling)

- We cant get out of here!

- Oh no!

- Get away from the windows!

Everybody back!

Keep your heads down!

Heads down! Lets go!

Get away from the windows!

Its OK! Its

gonna be all right.

- Im not taking this crap!

- Al, dont!

- Al, dont go out there!

- Hey!

Theres kids on this bus!

- Youre a bunch of terrorists!

(Siren)

- Its all right, guys.

Settle down.

Sit down!

(Yelling)

- Not too smart, Al!

- Theyre burning the flag!

- Lets get out of here! Go!

(Yelling)

- You guys OK?

- Yeah.

- What a mess.

Forget about your bags for now.

Team meeting inside.

- Dennis, put that away!

Put it away!

- You picked the

wrong bus to bring.

- No, we picked the

wrong country!

- Come on over here, OK?

Over here. Thats it.

Come on around.

- Give that to me.

- OK guys, listen up.

That was pretty ugly.

Put those people are

- Jerks.

- Yeah, OK. Jerks.

But whatever they

were screamin,

had nothing to do with us, OK?

- They burned our flag!

- Yeah.

The question is what

are we gonna do?

- We go home!

- No. We came to play hockey.

- Im not staying here.

Dennis and I will fly

back if we have to.

- No, Im not going!

This is our tournament!

We earned this!

Im not going to

let you ruin it!

- Settle down.

You know what?

The way we got treated today,

theres no blaming anybody

heading for home.

But for me, I vote to stay.

- (Boys):
Yeah.

- You kids worked your butts off

to raise the money.

We all did.

Diane, obviously you gotta do

what you think is best.

But we wish youd stay.

- (Boys):
Yeah.

- OK, OK.

- (Boys):
Yeah! USA! USA!

- Whoa!

- Whoa!

- Come on, settle down.

We got to get our minds

back into hockey, OK?

Were playing AAA team from

Fredericton tomorrow.

Theyre bigger than us

and faster than us.

But we got... what?

- Cool uniforms?

- Yeah! Cool uniforms!

- Yeah! Cool uniforms!

- Boxers! Boxers!

- If this D pinches,

this D comes across to cover.

Centerman, you cover here.

Same thing on the other side.

Centermen, you got that?

- Yeah.

- All right, good.

OK, boys, in bed at 8:30,

lights out at 9:
00.

- (All):
Come on!

- You want to go

sightseeing or something?

- (All):
Yeah!

- We wanna party!

- (Boys):
Party! Party!

- OK, I guess

nobodys interested

in what I have in this envelope.

- Whats in it?

- This is so awesome!

- I know! Can you believe it?

- Pronger or Chelios?

- Pronger.

Chelios is ancient.

- Yeah, Pronger.

- Hey, Broxton!

- Yeah?

- Were Fredericton.

We play you tomorrow.

- Whos your goalie?

- Me.

- Whos the moron?

- K.P.

Youre gonna see a

lot of him tomorrow.

- I bet.

- Bourque or Lidstrom?

- Bourque.

- Blue line belongs to him.

Better keep your head up.

- Yeah. You too.

- Always, man.

- Im lighting you up

like a Christmas tree.

- Keep dreaming.

- Jagr or Thornton?

- Cam Neely.

- Oh!

- Oh, here they are.

- Everything OK?

- Yeah. Its cool.

- Thanks, Coach.

Rock

- You couldve told me about

the scout from Notre Dame.

It kind of sucks to have

to hear it from Craig.

- I forgot.

- You forgot?

- This is so cool.

(Announcer speaking French)

- Ladies and gentlemen,

please rise

for the singing

of our national anthems.

- Oh say can you see

(Booing)

(Singing mixed with booing)

- Oh, man.

No class.

- Yeah, no kidding.

(Singing and booing)

- Come on, people. No.

(Clapping)

(Applauding,

singing and booing)

- Dont hang your head, boys.

This is your National Anthem.

(Booing)

(Applauding,

singing and booing)

- Hey, who threw that?

- Hey!

- What?

- Makes you feel like a big man,

scaring a bunch of kids?

- Which one threw

the beer first?

- Just forget

about it, all right?

- Well have him ejected.

- What about the

rest of em, huh?

- Its not worth it.

- Lets go! Lets go!

- Why do we have to go?

(Booing)

- The President of the Montreal

Canadiens hockey team

has expressed deep regret

over the booing of

the US National Anthem.

The incident is

one more example

of growing

anti-American sentiment

thats gaining steam

in the country.

- All right, lets

get some sleep.

- CTVs Roger Smith reports.

(TV off)

- Why didnt Mom come?

- Mom had a lot of stuff to do.

- I know what youre

fighting about.

- Were not fighting.

- Yes, you are.

You never go

anywhere together,

you dont talk unless

Im out of the room.

Its pretty obvious.

Its about her job, isnt it?

- Its about a lot of things.

Look, Jordy, were a family.

Your mom and me are trying to

work something out now.

Thats it.

Its going to be fine.

I guarantee it.

- Just like that?

- Yeah.

- Sure, Dad.

- (TV):
Troops from the 3rd

Infantry Division

crossed the

Euphrates River

and were on the march to

Baghdad, about 160 miles away.

In Northern Kuwait...

- You gonna sleep

tonight or what?

- Whats wrong

with these people?

- Bunch of drooling idiots.

- He wasnt so tough, the guy

who threw the beer at Coach.

- You think you could take him?

- No, but I bet Dad

wouldve laid him out.

- That wouldve been so sweet!

(Farting)

Oh, Dennis!

(Farting)

- You dying over there, buddy?

(Laughing)

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