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Information
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 110 min.
- Director
- Peter Markle
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Sport
- Rating *
- 6.1
- Votes *
- 9,842
- Checks
- 401
- Favs
- 9
- Dislikes
- 11
- Favs/checks
- 2.2% (1:45)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Keanu Reeves makes his big screen debut in the pretty generic sports movie Youngblood as a French Canadian goalie with a horrendous accent (but at least he's playing his actual position, one of many real hockey players on the ice). It's really Rob Lowe's movie, an American who tries to integrate into the (fictional) Hamilton Mustangs up in Canada, something made easier by his talent, though melodrama tries to get in the way (dating the coach's daughter, a friend's terrible injury, etc.). Its depiction of hockey is extremely violent - it's really doing no favors to the referees who are all blind, stupid, and easily manipulated - which in the Juniors, in 1986, might well have been true, but without the wink and twinkle of a movie like Goon, feels sadistic and much too extreme. While there's hockey action, it's almost more of a boxing movie. Patrick Swayze is almost too good to be in this thing, but I'm glad he is. Watchable, and at times even fun, but by no means in the top-ranking movies about the sport. 5 years 6 months ago