Product Description

- Entrevues Avec: Marc Messier, Patrick Huard, Serge Thériault, Paul Houde, Luc Guérin, Yvan Ponton, Patrick Labbé, Michel Charette, Dominic Philie, Pierre Lebeau - Commentaires Du Réalisateur Louis Saïa - Nouvelle Version Anamorphique - La tournée 1998 Molson Export ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tous les lundis soir, à l'aréna, onze hommes aussi différents que possible se retrouvent pour enfiler avec amour le chandail des Boys, l'équipe de hockey d'une ligue de "garage" dont ils font partie. Comme dirait affectueusement Stan, leur vénéré entraîneur, ils ont la "puck" tatouée sur le coeur. Peu importe qu'ils soient avocats, policiers, mécaniciens ou chômeurs, dès qu'ils entrent au vestiaire, tous oublient leur âge, leur travail et leurs problèmes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ever wanted to know what guys say when they get together? This light- hearted comedy explores the male world through an amateur hockey team. Every male stereotype is analyzed, comically of course.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158155 in DVD
• Published on: 1997
• Rating: Unrated
• Formats: Widescreen, Special Edition, Import, Dubbed, Subtitled
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 110 minutes

Customer Reviews

Hockey town, friends all around...
Whether you watch this film in French (Canadian) or in dubbed English, you still get the sense of one theme: camaraderie is universal.

Now, another theme, which is certainly spreading in the U.S., and highly popular in Canada, is that of hockey. The characters in this movie embrace the game, as it probably is their greatest focus in life. They all come from different lives and different backgrounds, but once a week they meet to play hockey as "Les Boys". Coached by the owner of the club they meet at, they have been playing recreationally for a while. However, when the coach gets in trouble with a loan shark, the boys' brace together for what they do not know is the game of their lives.

I found this film highly amusing, and, albeit there are a fair amount of hockey films, had just a little more to offer. Playing off of each man's ego, and their love of hockey, the characters develop. Thus we actually care for them. For American viewers, this is reminiscent of Slap Shot; only in my opinion this film had more of a point.

For those of you who have not seen this then I highly recommend it. Now this film is as appropriate for kids as Slap Shot (i.e., not very) but it is still good for the older viewer. Do not let the French language selection scare you away either, because like I said it has dub options, which work well trust me.

Overall, it is entertaining and something to get into for a brief time, and that is what good movies like these are all about.

Hockey and male cameradie
I am sure Mystery, Alaska was inspired by this movie, that must have had in its turn "Slapshot" as its template, just to remain in the hockey theme (there is a little bit of the Mighty Duck in it too!). But Les Boys is also a movie on male cameradie, like many beautiful films of the past (watch if you can find it the Italian "Amici Miei!).

A group of eleven men meet every Monday night to play hockey in a minor French Canadian (Quebec) legue. Once their coach, the pub owner Stan looses $50.000 to the criminal Meo, they team up and give their best to win agains Meo's team to avoid having Stan's legs broken.

The fun of this movie lies in the characters private lives, the ladiesman, the salesman, the gay lawyer, the cynical doctor, the cocain addict guitarist, the newly wed and others. All along the story is told with humor and compassion.

Louis Saia has made this story into a saga and I'm looking foreward to seeing Les Boys II.