Goon 2011
Sean William Scott as a bar bouncer who can't skate but can fight his way to a minor-league enforcer job. Baruchel co-wrote it.
The Big Picture · Discussion · Interview
Jay Baruchel's Directorial Debut and Making an Authentic Hockey Movie
September 1, 2017/ 35 min/ Sean Fennessey · Katie Baker
Katie Baker walks Sean Fennessey through the great hockey movies, then Jay Baruchel on directing Goon: Last of the Enforcers.
13 films across 2 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
The great hockey movieswith Katie Baker
Slap Shot 1977
Baker's consensus No. 1; she rewatched it and found it better than she remembered.
Miracle 2004
The 1980 Miracle on Ice team; a locker-room speech Baker rates against Al Pacino's.
Sudden Death 1995
Van Damme at a Penguins game, including a fight with the mascot in the arena kitchen. Baker's 5b.
Youngblood 1986
A snapshot of a certain era; the Bill Simmons generation of hockey movie.
The Mighty Ducks 1992
Not the best but arguably the most important hockey movie, since it launched an actual NHL franchise.
D2: The Mighty Ducks 1994
Where the Goldberg-vs-Julie 'the Cat' Gaffney tension pays off.
Little Giants 1994
Cited alongside the '90s kids-sports run for Becky 'the Icebox'.
The Sandlot 1993
Grouped with Little Giants as the era's good kids-sports movies.
Any Given Sunday 1999
The Pacino speech Miracle gets measured against.
Jay Baruchel on his directorial debut
Jay Baruchel on
Goon: Last of the Enforcers 2017
Baruchel's first feature as director. Where the original was about falling in love, the sequel is about an aging enforcer married to a job that's a finite, damaging thing.
Jay Baruchel on
Goon 2011
Baruchel co-wrote it with Evan Goldberg; he made Doug Jewish to route the story through his own father's hockey-fighting past.
Jay Baruchel on
Random Acts of Violence 2019
The horror adaptation of his and Jesse Chabot's graphic novel, which he was hoping to direct next.
Also mentioned raised along the way
In passing How to Train Your DragonBen-Hur
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV Trailer Park BoysThe Borgias
Ads mother!Proper Cloth