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08/04/2016 Drama 1h 28m
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Overview

Out of the approximately 600 players in the National Hockey League, thirty are Black. Mattie Slaughter, a hockey phenom from the rural Black community of North Preston, wants to make it thirty-one. To reach his goal, Mattie needs to keep his nose clean and avoid trouble. Hard to do though, when you go to a school where racism taints every interaction, your older brother is a hustler and you’re crushing on a girl who’s already hooked up.

  1. Director X.

    Director

  2. Floyd Kane

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Stephan James

    Mattie Slaughter

  2. Sarah Jeffery

    Jayme Crawley

  3. Shamier Anderson

    Carter Slaughter

  4. Lanette Ware

    Velma

  5. Steven Love

    John

  6. Denis Theriault

    Todd

  7. Kim Parkhill

    Police Officer

  8. Cara Ricketts

    Lori Downey

  9. Hugh Thompson

    Len Jacobsen

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by Dan_Tebasco
Written by Dan_Tebasco on 2017-04-16
Starts out alright but as a whole a rather lackluster film with a oversimplified view on racism.

Directed by a director who refers to himself as 'Director X' who after a bit of research was a Hype Williams trained musicvideo director previously going under the name of 'Little X' with his most famous effort before getting into film was Justin Bieber's Boyfriend video.

But 'Little X' didn't sound like a serious enough name to direct films and short films so he changed it to 'Director X' instead.

Anyhow, I would honestly not have thought he was a musicvideo-director because they tend ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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