Hockeyland (2022)

Directed by

Tommy Haines

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows teenage hockey players in a small Minnesota town where the sport dominates daily life. It shows their struggles on and off the ice as they chase their dreams of becoming professional players.

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What happens

Hockeyland a 2022 American documentary film directed by Tommy Haines and produced by Northland Films, immerses audiences deep in the heart of Minnesota's North Country, where hockey is just as central to life as football was to the fictional town of Dillon, Texas, and the frozen surface that separates every teenage boy from the man they hope to become one day criss-crossed with red and blue lines. The film opened theatrically as the #1 documentary in the country for the week of September 9 and was a 2022 Critics Choice nominee for "Best Sports Documentary". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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