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Chicks with Sticks

2005 · 99 min

A warm, scrappy underdog sports comedy with a big heart, mixing easy laughs with gentle life lessons.

Directed by
Kari Skogland
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Pascale Hutton, Margot Kidder, Jason Priestley
Tagline
The puck stops here.
Overview
The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore – who almost once made the Olympic team – finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men's squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and doubting herself, Paula must make a winner out of an explosive, irreverent crew of women hockey players who flock to her town, Red Deer Alberta, to assemble the team.

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Directed by
Kari Skogland
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Pascale Hutton, Margot Kidder, Jason Priestley
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • friendship
  • redemption
  • healing
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Kari Skogland
Written by
Don Truckey
Starring
Pascale Hutton, Margot Kidder, Jason Priestley, Jessalyn Gilsig, Peter Outerbridge, Juliette Marquis, Michie Mee, Tanya Allen
Cinematography
Paul Tolton
Runtime
99 min
Country
Canada
Languages
English

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