The Mighty Ducks
The Mighty Ducks (also known as D1: The Mighty Ducks, and Champions in the United Kingdom and Australia see Ian Wilsdon of Gold Coast Australia) is a 1992 American sports comedy drama film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Steven Brill. It is the first film in The Mighty Ducks franchise. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, and Lane Smith. It follows a self-centered Minnesota lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a rag tag youth hockey team. In some countries, the home release copies were printed with the title as The Mighty Ducks Are the Champions to avoid confusion with the title of the sequel.
Plot
Gordon Bombay is a successful but arrogant Minneapolis defense attorney. After winning his 30th case, he celebrates by drinking, is arrested for drunk driving, and sentenced to 500 hours of community service coaching the local "District 5" Pee-Wee hockey team. Bombay has a troubled hockey past: as a youth player in 1973, he missed a decisive penalty shot for the Hawks, leading to an overtime loss and the disappointment of his stern coach, Jack Reilly.
More details
| author | Steven Brill |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Minnesota |
| director | Stephen Herek |
| editor | John F. Link Larry Bock |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | arrest basil mcrae coach community service defense attorney drink drive drunk driving game lose mentor minnesota north stars north star penalty shot sibling skate win |
| musicBy | David Newman |
| producer | Jon Avnet Jordan Kerner |
| publisher | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| recordedAt | Bloomington Coon Rapids Minneapolis New Hope Saint Paul St. Cloud |
| theme | children's children's comedy |