The macho bonding sounds good, and with four guys, one of them is bound to be gay.
It turns out to be about curling, the Canadian sport where you brush a stone across ice with a broom (a real broom, or a special curling broom).
A recently deceased curler, Donald Foley, is narrating after his death. Establishing shots of a factory town. He introduces us to his family, beginning with "his Kama Sutra girl" Eva.
Introducing his wife by alluding to all of the sexual positions she knows? Is that supposed to be funny?
He has two daughters, Julie the Astronaut and Amy the Single Mother, and four curling proteges:
1. Chris (Paul Gross, top photo), who abandoned Julie the Astronaut at the altar and left town. Maybe he realized that he was gay and high-tailed it to the glittering gay neighborhoods of Toronto or Montreal.
2. Eddie (Jed Rees, left), who has heretofor been unsuccessful in getting his "sperm to hit the right spot" and make a baby with his wife. This dead guy's descriptions are really grotesque.
3. James (Peter Outerbridge) who gets so many girls that he can't recall the name of the current one. "You'll never get a wife that way!," Foley admonishes.
This is Peter Outerbridge, but way more built than the guy in the movie. Could there be two of them?
4. Neil(James Allodi) who causes slapstick trouble at the funeral: corpse falls out of the casket and so on.
Could the cute guy whose tie gets stuck in the casket be his boyfriend?
James Allodi played a gay guy in a small Canadian town in Wilby Wonderful. My money is on Neil as the gay one.
Foley's last wish is for his cremated remains to be placed in the handle of the Copernicus Stone, an important curling artifact, and for the four guys to use it to win the Golden Broom Championship. They will thereby save the town or something.
Chris gets his estranged father, who "does something irregular with cows," to coach.
Speaking of cows: Holy cow, this is boring. I'm going to fast forward to see whether it's Neil or Chris that finds "true love" with a boy.
Ulp. Neil hooks up with Julie, the Astronaut Daughter. Chris hooks up with Amy, the Single Mother. Fade out kiss.
Foley has two daughters, and two single curling proteges. How symmetrical! How heteronormative!
Wait -- Amazon Prime lied. This movie is from 2002. That explains the heteronormativity. In 2002 gay characters appeared only in rom-coms as the sassy best friend of the female lead, and in indie dramas about how horrible gay life is.
Beefcake: The guys climb into a lake. Chest and butt shots. They take a sauna. Several chest shots of the guys in bed with their respective girlfriends and wives.
Other Scenery: Scenic small town location shots.
Gay Characters: Not a whiff.
"Sperm to the right spot". Now I'm thinking of Dance Me Outside. One of the characters has his friends distract his ex-girlfriend's sterile but in denial husband so he can get her pregnant. But you're here more for Adam Beach destroying evidence, including his clothes.
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