The Mighty Ducks

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The Mighty Ducks
The Mighty Ducks DVD cover
Directed by	Stephen Herek
Produced by	Jon Avnet Jordan Kerner
Written by	Steven Brill
Starring	Emilio Estevez Joshua Jackson
Music by	David Newman
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	October 2, 1992
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
Followed by	D2: The Mighty Ducks
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The Mighty Ducks is the first film in The Mighty Ducks trilogy, produced by Avnet-Kerner Productions and Walt Disney Pictures, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, and originally released to movie theatres by October 2, 1992.

[edit] Plot

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After being charged with drunk driving, a lawyer named Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is sentenced to community service, coaching hockey, a sport he claimed to hate. There, he meets the District 5 peewee hockey team, a team of perennial losers who finish at the bottom of the league standings year after year, and are shut out at every game by at least five goals. The players learn that Bombay was once a player for the Hawks, an elite team in the same league, but left hockey because of the embarrassment that followed after he failed a shot in the shootout that cost the Hawks a peewee championship. With the help of Coach Bombay, and a desperately needed infusion of cash, equipment, provided by Gordon's friend Hans, and the addition of four new players (Fulton Reed, the local punk with an extremely fast slapshot, siblings Tommy and Tammy Duncan, and the Hawks' star player Adam Banks, after it was discovered that he actually lived in District 5), the players learn the fundamentals of the game. Soon enough, the District 5 team (now christened the Ducks, after Bombay's employer, Mr. Ducksworth) start winning games and manage to make the playoffs, eventually reaching the finals. Bombay faces the Hawks, the team he grew up playing for, still led by Jack Reilly (Lane Smith), the same coach Bombay played for and who won't settle for anything but winning. Fittingly, the Ducks win the title game on a penalty shot by Bombay's own protege, Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson), using the triple-deke shot that Bombay used during his peewee years.