The Mighty Ducks
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| The Mighty Ducks | |
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 The Mighty Ducks DVD cover |
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| 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 on October 2, 1992.
[edit] Plot
After being charged with drunk driving, a lawyer named Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is sentenced to community service by coaching hockey, a sport he claims to hate. In doing so, 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 (that bounced off the net's metal railing) in the shootout that cost the Hawks a peewee championship (they had won the championship every year with this one exception). With the help of Coach Bombay, and a desperately needed infusion of cash and equipment, provided by Gordon's friend Hans and his former employer Mr. Ducksworth, 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. Gerald 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 a championship (earlier he lamaented that the one "runner-up" banner in the arena from Gordon's missed shot should be taken down). 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.
[edit] Departures
Mighty Duck players that did not return for the next film are
- Tammy Duncan
- Tommy Duncan
- Terry Hall
- Dave Karp
- Peter Mark
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