Release Date: 2012-03-30
NYC and/or LA Release
Distributors: Magnet Releasing
Directors: Michael Dowse
Actors : , Alison Pill, Eugene Levy, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott
Status: Completed
Film Genre(s): Comedy
Canada
SYNOPSIS
Scripted by Jay Barauchel and Evan Goldberg and inspired by Doug Smith and Adam Frattasio‘s book “Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey Into Minor League Hockey”, this is the story of Doug Glatt (Scott), a dumb but loveable bar bouncer plucked from obscurity to be the enforcer for a minor league hockey team.PREVIEW NOTES
- Magnet Releasing announces that they have taken US rights to this comedy. - 2011-09-13
"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
