Score: A Hockey Musical (2010) on Netflix
Seventeen-year-old Farley Gordon, homeschooled in Toronto by pacifist parents, plays shinny at his local rink. A junior league owner recruits him, and the league expects its players to fight.
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Plot summary
In Toronto, seventeen-year-old Farley Gordon has been homeschooled by his parents, Hope and Edgar, whom he regards as pacifist-anarchists. Hockey is the one thing he does not share with them. His play has been limited to non-competitive pickup games, and though he has never trained formally, the sport comes naturally to him. Walt Acorn, who owns the junior league Brampton Blades, spots Farley and offers him a tryout, which the team's coaching staff does not welcome. Coach Donker is unimpressed, and after Farley twice dekes through the defense to score, the enforcer Moose knocks him out with a bodycheck. Donker warns him that he cannot defend himself. Eve, his best friend since childhood and an aspiring cellist, is homeschooled too.
Cast
- Dave Bidinias Rink Rat #1
- John McDermottas Himself
- Chris Smithas Rink Rat #2
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Score: A Hockey Musical (2010)
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- After Score opened the Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian filmmakers avoided the festival's opening spot for eight years, even though a Canadian film opening TIFF had been traditional.
- Executive producer Jody Colero brought in singer-songwriter Marc Jordan to play the father; Jordan's wife, singer Amy Sky, sent the script to her friend Olivia Newton-John, and director Michael McGowan called Newton-John agreeing to co-star a "casting coup" that encouraged international sales.
- Filming in the hockey arena began before sunrise to make the most of limited ice time; McGowan wore knee-height snowmobile boots against the cold, and Noah Reid said his feet were "chewed up" after two weeks of six hours a day in hockey skates.
- Choreographer Amy Wright hired ballet, jazz and hip-hop dancers who had played ice hockey, instead of figure skaters, because McGowan wanted the dancing hockey players to look awkward and imperfect; months went into making the songs and choreography work.
- Michael McGowan expected difficulty casting his lead, but Noah Reid was the first to audition and won the part with his acting, skating and singing, after playing one-on-one hockey with McGowan at the Upper Canada College rink.
- The 2011 Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival in Toronto gave Score its Green Screen Award for green production techniques; the film's green plan cut its greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 20 tonnes.
