Histoires d’hiver (1999)

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Country: Canada
Genres: Drama, Family, Sport
Release: 1999-02-26
Director: François Bouvier
Writers: François Bouvier , Marc Robitaille
Language: French | English
Stars: Joël Dalpé-Drapeau , Denis Bouchard , Patrick Thomas , Mathieu Beaumier , Maude Gionet , Luc Guérin , Diane Lavallée , Suzanne Champagne , Cédric Pépin , Robert Toupin
Runtime: 105 min
Awards: 2 wins & 11 nominations
AKA: Histoires d'hiver , Histoires d'hiver (France, French Republic) , Ein kanadischer Winter (Germany) , Winter Stories (Australia) , Histoires d'hiver (Canada) , Lätkää vai likkaa (Finland)
Plot: An adult Martin Roy reminisces about his life in the 1966/67 school year. At fifteen years old and in his last year of junior high school, he breathed, ate and slept hockey. He collected hockey cards, played street hockey with his friends, tried skating and ice hockey for the first time in his life, but was most fascinated with his local national league team, the Montréal Canadiens, and its star player, Henri Richard. He dreamed of growing up and working for the Canadiens franchise. But a more immediate goal was to get tickets to one of their games, using M. Richard and his banker father, Hervé, as possible conduits to that goal. He also remembers his school life from that year, with the arrival of pot smoking free thinking hippie Ron Richardson as the new English teacher, and dreading home room with strict Mlle. Chouinard, who he eventually learned too had a human side. But he learned that there may be a couple of things more important than hockey: family, and the opposite sex.
IMDB:tt0142215