Men With Brooms

R

Released Sep 20, 2002

1h 42m

Comedy

List

57%

Tomatometer

21 Reviews

67%

Audience Score

5,000+ Ratings

A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter (Paul Gross) disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley (Michelle Nolden), at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon (Leslie Nielsen) -- himself a former curling star -- for a final attempt at glory.

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William Thomas

Empire Magazine

Serving as director, writer and lead, Paul Gross -- who enjoyed brief fame in the TV Mountie show Due South -- imbues his film with that series' same languid Canadian charm.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 30, 2006

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Steven Rosen

Denver Post

It makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film.

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 20, 2002

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Robert Koehler

Variety

Someday, a creative filmmaker may make an involving movie on the unique sport of curling. Men With Brooms, however, is not that movie.

Mar 26, 2002

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Brian D. Johnson

Maclean's Magazine

The filmmakers have great fun mixing and matching the game's metaphors. With such gags as a sweat lodge of hot curling rocks, they send up and glorify its rituals all at once.

Mar 24, 2020

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Think The Full Monty on ice: Canada's most famous TV Mountie Paul Gross (Due South) puts tongue firmly in cheek as he applies the old underdog sports team formula to that great Northern obsession: curling.

May 22, 2016

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

On one hand, it's a Canadian movie about curling, so points for originality and cultural pride... On the other hand, almost all of those points for originality come back off, because... we can see it all coming from the opening scenes. I mean, everything.

Jul 7, 2010

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Audience Member

If you're 12 years old and you like fart jokes you will love this movie I promise you.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

This was my type of movie with style and a lot more but a ton of the jokes missed to me 2.9

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/10/20

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Audience Member

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! It's so Canadian!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/01/20

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corkball

Formulaic underdog sports movie. It has some quirky Canadian-specific charm, but nothing particularly interesting happens in this film, and it is REALLY hard to get worked up by curling.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

I've loved this movie ever since I first saw it years ago, and was reminded of it when I saw it again just now. It's Canadian, with a capital Canuck, and for that alone I adore it. (How to define Canadian themes, Canadian ambiance and pacing, Canadian sense of wry, surrealistic japery mixed with deep and kind empathy? I can't. But I know it when I see it.) All the actors are very good and sometimes more than very good (Molly Parker and Peter Outerbridge especially) and Gross's direction is deft and remarkably light. There are a couple of gags that fall flat in 2019; other than that, this is a tiny bit of brilliance.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. The only actors name that I recognized was Leslie Neilsen and I recognized the debt collector but didn't know his name, however this movie was really enjoyable! It ends up dragging you into it and also taught me things about curling that I didn't know. Overall, I would and will recommend to others that this movie is worth watching and one that I would watch again.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Synopsis

A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter (Paul Gross) disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley (Michelle Nolden), at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon (Leslie Nielsen) -- himself a former curling star -- for a final attempt at glory.

Director: Paul Gross
Producer: Robert Lantos
Screenwriter: Paul Gross, John Krizanc
Distributor: Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
Production Co: Serendipity Point Films, Whizbang Films
Rating: R (Sexuality|Language|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 20, 2002, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.2M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)