Winter Stories (1999)

Original title

Histoires d'hiver

Directed by

François Bouvier

Genre

drama film, sport film, coming-of-age film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

14A

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the winter of 1966, a young boy named Martin Roy is obsessed with hockey and idolizes a Montreal Canadiens player. As he goes through his final year of junior high, he starts to discover new things like pot, philosophy, and girls, learning that life has more to offer than just sports.

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What happens

Winter Stories (French: Histoires d'hiver) is a 1999 Canadian sports drama film. Directed by François Bouvier and written by Bouvier and Marc Robitaille as an adaptation of Robitaille's book Des histoires d'hiver, avec des rues, des écoles et du hockey, the film centres on a young boy's obsession with ice hockey in the 1960s. The film stars Joël Drapeau-Dalpé as Martin Roy, a boy on the cusp of his teenage years and in his final year of junior high school in 1966. A passionate fan of hockey, particularly of the Montreal Canadiens, he idolizes Henri Richard. However, over the course of the winter he begins to learn that there are many more things in the world to discover, including pot, philosophy and pretty girls. The film's cast also includes Luc Guérin as Martin's father, Denis Bouchard as his uncle Maurice, Suzanne Champagne as his homeroom teacher Mme Chouinard, and Alex Ivanovici as his English teacher. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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