I don’t know if I’m comfortable calling this my “favorite” movie (honestly, I’m don’t know if I’m comfortable calling anything my favorite anything), but I’m fairly certain the movie I’ve seen the most times—and laughed at every time—is the 1977 hockey comedy Slap Shot.
I honestly don’t give a shit about hockey orisn’t really about hockey. Depending on which angle you look at it from,is about owners versus freelancers, about the pitiful pageant of manliness, about the capitalist ransacking of small-town America, about the zen-like meaninglessness of pretty much any endeavor, and—crucially to me—it’s about New England. Although if you were from Canada you’d think maybe it was about Canada. It’s also about hockey.
