SPORTS FILMS were a nonfactor at Sunday's Academy
Awards. (Really, was anyone surprised that The Benchwarmers was snubbed?) But
at the Genies, the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars, a hockey flick was the
big winner. The Rocket, a biopic about French Canadian Hall of Famer Maurice
Richard and his struggles in a league dominated by English speakers, took nine
of the 13 awards it was nominated for. The movie, which is in French with
English subtitles, was never released in the U.S.—but it is available on
DVD.
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