Smudge the Blades

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Smudge the Blades

2026

1h 42m

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Drama

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Lindsay Traves

The Smash List

4 hrs ago

It’s a sometimes bleak but otherwise beautiful story about team sports and how they create found family, opportunity, and camaraderie in a world where you’re asked to shoot from the red line.

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Joonatan Itkonen

Region Free

3 days ago

3/5

Writer/director Cody Lightning understands the intricacies of how everything we experience can be channeled into a single swing of a hockey stick.

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Jared Mobarak

Hey, Have You Seen ...?

4 days ago

7/10

One of the best qualities of Smudge the Blades is that there’s no savior with all the answers. The adults are just as off-balance as the kids at trying to traverse paths they had no good examples to copy from either.

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Pat Mullen

That Shelf

5 days ago

The spirit of John Candy endures in Cody Lightning. The Cree actor really hits his stride in Smudge the Blades playing a shaggy dog coach one just can’t help but love.

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Cody Lightning

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Paulina Alexis

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Director: Cody Lightning
Producer: Joshua Jackson, Kyle Thomas, Sara Corry, Hayley Morin, Dylan Morin, Cody Lightning
Screenwriter: Cody Lightning, Samuel Miller
Production Co: Lightning Mill, North Country Cinema
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sports
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 42m

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