Mystery Alaska [VHS]
by Jay Roach
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Actor: Burt Reynolds, Colm Meaney, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Russell CroweDirector: Jay Roach
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 119 minutes
Release Date: 2000-10-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Studio: Walt Disney Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Mystery Alaska [VHS]
Movie Review: Awesome movie- even if your not a hockey fan you will like it!
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved this movie, I would HIGHLY recommend this movie to anyone, I have loaned it to friends who do not like hockey or just aren't fans of hockey and they all have told me it was a fantastic movie and surprised them that they liked it.
This movie has a lot of talent in it From Burt Reynolds to Mary McCormack to a face that Star Trek fans would recognize Colm Meaney who played Chief Miles O'Brien its a movie you can watch over and over and enjoy every minute of it. The town plays a Saturday hockey game and ends up playing a NHL team.
Movie Review: Hockey lovers everywhere!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is just a darn good movie. For anyone who loves good old-time hockey with lovely Russell Crowe and no bad language, drugs or sexually explicit scenes - this should be YOUR movie!!Movie Review: Mystery Alaska
Summary: 2 Stars
Mystery Alaska
Cookie cutter sports drama leading up to the big win. Excellent performances from Russell Crowe and Burt Reynolds. I like the way the movie brought the audience into the world of small town Alaska hockey.Worth watching, but I wouldn't watch it twice.
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Movie Review: For hockey fans only
Summary: 2 Stars
The folks who live in tiny Mystery, Alaska love their Saturday hockey games. Playing on the team is a big deal to most men, and when Sheriff John Biebe (Russell Crowe) gets cut because he's too old and too slow, he feels awful. It's even worse when a former Mysterian returns from the big city with news that the New York Rangers are coming to play the locals on national TV.
The subtitle for this movie could well be "Northern Exposure on Ice" or even "Rocky in Skates." It's the tale of quirky small towners with all their domestic ups and downs who naturally pull together for the Big Game against the city slickers. In other words, it's pretty corny and predictable unless you're a hockey fan, in which case you'll probably love this movie. An ensemble piece, we don't see a whole lot of Russell Crowe; it's just as well because he seems woefully out of place. Yes, he can skate, but he's just too intense and intimidating for this lighthearted comedy. Sharing the screen with the likes of Burt Reynolds, Mike Meyers, and Little Richard doesn't help, either.
Movie Review: Fun Flick
Summary: 5 Stars
I give this five stars not because it's a cinematic masterpiece, but because it's fun and very re watchable. All the pieces fit. You won't laugh hard the whole time, but there are moments and I always enjoy this movie.
Summary of Mystery Alaska [VHS]
With Russell Crowe (THE INSIDER, A BEAUTIFUL MIND), Hank Azaria (GODZILLA, THE BIRD CAGE), and Burt Reynolds leading an incredible all-star cast, here's a fun, uplifting, action-packed story that everyone will love! A remote hockey-obsessed town populated by 633 of the most eccentric characters you'd ever want to meet, Mystery is the kind of place where nothing ever changes. But then life as they know it gets turned completely upside down! When a publicity stunt brings the world-famous New York Rangers -- and the national spotlight -- to Mystery for a game with the local team of weekend warriors, the whole town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime! Also starring Mary McCormack (TRUE CRIME, DEEP IMPACT) and Lolita Davidovich (PLAY IT TO THE BONE, JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE) in another critical favorite from the hit-making director of AUSTIN POWERS 1&2 -- you'll stand and cheer as this ragtag bunch shows that nothing can melt their dreams of a miracle on ice!When it comes to the subject of community, David?E. Kelley--the prolific writer-producer behind television's The Practice and Ally McBeal--falls somewhere on a continuum between directors Howard Hawks and Robert Benton. While Hawks's professional characters are bound by a knowledge of how to do what they do even if they don't know why, Benton's people, professional or not, have long ago substituted their own eccentric reasons for that elusive why. Thus we get the kind of in-house, oddball rituals sandwiched between passages of actual work on Ally, and the affectionately entangled personal and professional ties between small-town folks in Kelley's earlier TV series Picket Fences.
Kelley's script for Mystery, Alaska (co-authored by Sean O'Byrne) takes that level of eccentricity to a geographical and spiritual extreme. The film revives the hackneyed Rocky formula, setting a lopsided hockey match within a remote, self-contained hamlet where the members of a tiny population all have to wear multiple hats and still keep neighborly ties intact. The story concerns the town's chief source of identity and pride: so-called "Saturday games," in which local men divide into teams and play pond hockey for the locals. When a prodigal son (Hank Azaria) of Mystery shows up with a television network offer to bring the New York Rangers in for a televised match against the homegrown team, the town fathers agree. Coaching falls to the town sheriff, John Biebe (Russell Crowe), an admirable man and a longtime player recently bumped from the team. John, however, doesn't want the job: everyone knows the real coach in those parts is Judge Burns (Burt Reynolds), but he wants no part of it either. All of that changes after a sad tragedy forces everyone to reevaluate their positions and pull together in order to beat the Rangers.
Following the success of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Jay Roach proves to be an able director of drama, swift action, and low-key, character-driven comedy not unlike that in Benton's Nobody's Fool. He has to deal with some pure corn at the end, but Roach pulls it off and guides the actors to and through far better moments. --Tom Keogh
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