The Mighty Ducks (Exclusive Series) (Disney Plus)
- Matt Palmer
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min read
Initial release date: October 2, 1992
Studios: Walt Disney Pictures
Tagline: They Can’t Skate. They Can’t in. They Can’t Be Serious.
He’s never coached. They’ve never won. Together they’ll learn everything about winning!
Plot: After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn’t eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own forever coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate the team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway and leads them to take on Reilly’s tough players.
Cast
Emilio Estevez (Disney Plus’ Mighty Ducks: Game Changers) - Gordon Bombay
Joss Ackland (Lethal Weapon 2) - Hans
Lane Smith (Legend of Bagger Vance) - Coach Reilly
Heidi Kling (D3: The Mighty Ducks) - Casey
Josef Sommer (The Other Guys) - Gerald Ducksworth
Joshua Jackson (Peacock’s Dr. Death) - Charlie Conway
Elden Henson (Netflix’s Daredevil) - Fulton Reed
Shaun Weiss - Goldberg
M.C. Gainey - Lewis
Matt Doherty - Les Averman
Brandon Quintin Adams - Jesse Hall
Writer: Steven Brill (Walk of Shame; Little Nicky)
Director: Stephen Herek (CBSs MacGyver; The Chaperone)
Rated PG for mild language (104 min)
Disney’s ‘The Mighty Ducks’ is definitely one of the “modern classics” that almost everyone had to have seen at least once in their childhood.
‘The Mighty Ducks’ is a very entertaining family feature that all families will surely enjoy! It delivers a lot of pleasing, light-hearted moments and quite a few moments that will make you laugh.
This classic 90s movie is truly a great one to see if the whole family wants to stream something. It has a lot of heart and some great hockey fun.
So, if you want to find a movie to watch for a family movie night, the 1992 classic ‘The Mighty Ducks’ is highly recommended and can be streamed on Disney Plus.
**FYI - ‘The Mighty Ducks’ is 28 years old!!! Feel old yet?!
Here are some interesting tidbits about ‘The Mighty Ducks’:
Jake Gyllenhaal, who was unknown at the time, auditioned for the role of Charlie Conway, but his parents wouldn’t let him do the movie so the producers ended up casting Joshua Jackson.
Charlie Sheen was offered the role of Gordon Bombay, but turned it down and later on his brother, Emilio Estevez, took the role.
When the Anaheim Mighty Ducks were added as an expansion team to the NHL, they were named after the movie because the team was owned by Disney. However, prior to the 2005-06 NHL season, the Ducks dropped “Mighty” from their name and are now known as the “Anaheim Ducks.”
Bill Murray was considered to play Gordon Bombay, but was deemed too old.
It was filmed in several locations in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The film grossed $50.7 million in the US and Canada, becoming a surprising success with audiences, which in turn inspired two sequels and an animated TV series (the latter taking on a sci-fi angle with actual anthropomorphic ducks).
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