To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Acting
Paul Newman at his most unhinged and charismatically sleazy.
Writing
Nancy Dowd's script captures locker-room poetry nobody else dared.
Practical Effects
Real hockey players, real bruises, real chaos on ice.
Director
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman
Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
Strother Martin
Joe McGrath
Michael Ontkean
Ned Braden
Jennifer Warren
Francine Dunlop
Lindsay Crouse
Lily Braden
Jerry Houser
Dave 'Killer' Carlson
Andrew Duncan
Jim Carr
Allan F. Nicholls
Johnny Upton
Brad Sullivan
Morris 'Mo' Wanchuk
Stephen Mendillo
Jim Ahern
Yvan Ponton
Jean-Guy Drouin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Hanson Brothers were based on real players from the Johnstown Jets; two of them couldn't skate before filming.
This film single-handedly created the 'goon' archetype in sports movies, influencing everything from Goon to Ted Lasso's Nate.
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