Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story

Name: Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story
Genre: Biography, Sport, Documentary
Released: April 12, 2019
Duration: 94 min
Cast: Bob Probert, Chris Chelios, Don Cherry, Jeremy Roenick, Joe Kocur

2019

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Dark Star Pictures | Release Date: April 12, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Bob Probert, Chris Chelios, Don Cherry, Jeremy Roenick, Joe Kocur, Scott Parker, Stu Grimson, Tie Domi, Tony Twist, Troy Crowder

Summary: During a notorious career with the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks, Bob Probert racked up points, penalty minutes and bar bills, establishing himself as one of the most feared enforcers in the history of the NHL. On the ice, he was a fan favorite. He backed up his teammates, taking on the toughest guys of his era. Off the ice,During a notorious career with the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks, Bob Probert racked up points, penalty minutes and bar bills, establishing himself as one of the most feared enforcers in the history of the NHL. On the ice, he was a fan favorite. He backed up his teammates, taking on the toughest guys of his era. Off the ice, Probert played hard too. Over his pro career he went though ten stays in rehab, two NHL suspensions, a jail sentence for carrying cocaine across the boarder and a near fatal motorcycle crash. When he died unexpectedly of a heart attack on July 5, 2010, at the age of forty-five, he was hard at work on his memoir with co-author Kirstie McLellan Day. The tape recordings from her interviews with Probert are used throughout the documentary, allowing Bob to tell his own story, in his own words. With his unique sense of humor and inside stories, Probert gives us his adrenaline-fueled life as the toughest fighter in the NHL. [Dark Star Pictures]… Expand

Director: Geordie Day

Genre(s): Biography, Sport, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Noel Murray

May 2, 2019

What makes “Tough Guy” such a good sports-doc is that it’s unusually honest — both about how much fans loved seeing an old-fashioned bruiser terrorize the NHL, and how that player's demons inevitably devoured him. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 15, 2019

If the game is more civilized now, it’s thanks to the excesses of bullying brutes like Bob Probert. That’s a message Day doesn’t take the time to get across, leaving “Tough Guy” a little thin in the “And your point is?” department. Read full review

Joshua Speiser

May 7, 2019

Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story does a good job revealing the man behind the battered visage, on many levels humanizing the excessively partying, hard-hitting Probert. However, the filmmaker chokes when it matters most. He fails to do a deep dive into how this ongoing physical punishment adversely affected the health of Probert (and many of these so-called enforcers) while giving a pass to the NHL’s willful negligence and tacit acceptance or this carnage. Read full review

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