| Goon | |
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| Directed by | Michael Dowse |
| Produced by | Don Carmody Ian Dimerman David Gross André Rouleau Jesse Shapira |
| Written by | Jay Baruchel Evan Goldberg |
| Starring | Seann William Scott Jay Baruchel Allison Pill Marc-Andre Grondin and Kim Coates with Eugene Levy as 'Dr. Glatt' and Liev Schreiber |
| Music by | Ramachandra Borcar |
| Cinematography | Bobby Shore |
| Editing by | Reginald Harkema |
| Studio | E1 Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Magnet Releasing |
| Release date(s) | September 10, 2011 (Toronto Film Festival) March 30, 2012 (US) |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Goon is a 2012 film comedy starring Seann William Scott directed by Michael Dowse. It depicts a nice but dimwitted man who becomes the Enforcer for a minor league hockey team.
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Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is a very nice but unintelligent man who feels ostracized from his family, his father and brother both being doctors. One day he visits a minor league hockey game with his friend Ryan (Jay Baruchel). Ryan taunts the visiting team during a fight and one of their players climbs into the stands. Doug, in defense of his friend, headbutts the hockey player and knocks him out, which prompts the rest of the crowd to cheer him. Soon after, Doug gets a phone call from the coach of his home team who offers him a job as an enforcer, a player whose role is to protect his teammates and acts as a deterrent by hitting or fighting opposing players who take liberties with his teammates. Written by Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, co-writer of Superbad and Pineapple Express.
The film is an adaptation of the book Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey by Adam Frattasio and Doug Smith.
A red-band trailer for the movie was released on IGN.[1]