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Lundgren’s Red Orm Productions will work along with Score G Productions and Famous Red Car Pictures to executive produce the project. Andrew Holmes (“Bisping,” “The Humanity Bureau”) is writing and directing the documentary. Adam Scorgie and Shane Fennessey serve as lead producers.
Trejo caught the attention of Runaway Train screenwriter Edward Bunker, who asked him to come aboard as a boxing advisor for star Eric Roberts. He was informed the pay was $320 a day, but that he might get punched during the training.
"I said for $320, give him a stick! Are you crazy? I've been beat up for free, holmes."
“The Good Son succeeds at effectively portraying the major events in Ray Mancini’s life because it gets so close to those who played a part in its stark storylines. By coming together in search of communion and reconciliation, Mancini and the Kim’s gain the chance to heal and put the past, finally, behind them, where it belongs. This doesn’t mean leaving the memory of Duk-Koo Kim behind, but instead strengthening it and paying homage, through remembrance and understanding.” –Rafael García
On July 5, 2010, legendary NHL tough guy Bob Probert collapsed on his boat on Lake St. Clair, near Windsor and died of a heart attack. He was only 45 years old.
Bob was on his third glass of coke and eighth pill of OxyContin that day. He’d routinely take the two together to deal with his aching body. Seventeen years as the NHL’s toughest enforcer had taken its toll. As the undisputed, “heavyweight champ,” he finished his career fifth in all-time penalty minutes. He averaged 40 brutal, bare-knuckled hockey fights a year.
This is a documentary based on a book by Day’s mother Kirstie McLellan Day, who co-wrote it with Probert, who died after collapsing on his boat on Lake St. Clair in 2010.
"When the fight was going on, did you see anybody get out of their seats and go for coffee?" Nothing like a hockey fight, right?
Tough Guy: Bob Probert Story is great documentary about one of the toughest hockey players of all-time. If you’re a hockey or sports fan, this is something to watch if you can because it shows his roller coaster of a career, and his post-hockey life as well. It’s hard to defend fighting in hockey after this that’s for sure.
Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story, a new documentary premiering in mid-December, is an intimate portrait of the feared Windsor-born NHL enforcer — revealing seldom-seen aspects of his life.
The documentary feature film tells the story of former Oilers netminder Grant Fuhr, a five-time Stanley Cup champion and the first black hockey player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Featured contributors in the documentary include Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Martin Brodeur, Brett Hull, Chris Pronger and many more of the NHL’s royalty.
In examining the role of enforcers, one cannot help but question basic concepts such as character, loyalty and fairness. Highly recommended viewing for any hockey or sports fan.
"Chasing Evel is the emotional story of legendary Evel Knievel’s son, Robbie. His father was an icon, his father was a tyrant, his father never let him out of his shadow."
“Chasing Evel is a story that draws on some pretty classic themes, namely the relationship between fathers and their sons."
Even with major TV broadcast events, merchandising deals, world records, fame and fortune, Robbie has always been overshadowed by his father’s legacy.
"Chasing Evel pulls back the curtain on the rocky – and sometimes violent – relationship Knievel had with the son who chose to follow in his father’s footsteps."
"Robbie's late-career attempt at sobriety and comeback is the thread that pulls this documentary taut, but it's the father-son conflict that gives it tragic heft—and hints of triumph, for that matter."
"If you want to be able to understand the hidden motivations behind fighting in hockey and sports in general, and to be able argue this question intelligently, watch this riveting film."
The documentary also examines the human attraction to violence and the role the media plays in depicting it.
“Ice Guardians” tells the story of those players — players like Kelly Chase and Kevin Westgarth and so many others — and the layers of humanity beyond their fists and the evolution and purpose of enforcers in the game.
"A beautifully filmed, visceral, in-depth, in-your-face, and raw inside look at one of the most talked about aspects in professional hockey history."
"Ice Guardians does an excellent job of setting its stage because of the player interviews that effectively characterize what initially appears as savagery between muscular, testosterone-driven men, and is gradually revealed to something much more sacred."
"One of the best sports documentaries in recent years, this is a well-made and respectful look at a dying breed and the warriors who love the game they play."
"...gives you insightful information that could persuade the anti-fighting crowd into rethinking their position."
"...the director has pulled off the difficult feat of implementing footage in such a way that the film remains engaging from start to finish."
"Americans have basically internalized the arguments, and although federal law still presumes to tell grown-ups what they can or can't smoke, vape, or ingest in gummy-bear form, state laws are slowly becoming less restrictive."
Right now, we have opportunities for progressive drug policy changes we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago.