Film Review – The Grizzlies

Lacrosse is not a sport that’s often depicted in movies. While offering heated competition and high-scoring highlights, filmmakers aren’t all that interested in doing something with the contact game, which received one of its more high-profile explorations in 2012’s “Crooked Arrows.” For “The Grizzlies,” lacrosse is the impetus of the story, but screenwriters Graham Yost (“Speed,” “Hard Rain”) and Moira Walley-Beckett (“Breaking Bad,” “Anne with an E”) are more interested in the community unification of the sport, merging underdog cinema with a sincere examination of despondency in the Artic region. “The Grizzlies” has its playing field highs and lows, but the feature is more interested in the struggles of life for Inuit people, finding a way to deliver sporting development with a stark study of anguished characters looking for something, anything, to lift themselves up. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com