Lacrosse has moonlighted in Hollywood before, but this is no “American Pie.” Prepare for “Crooked Arrows,” the sport’s fi rst mainstream feature fi lm coming to theaters May 18.
By Matt Forman
Get your popcorn ready. Every sport has its own memorable
fi lms. Baseball has “Bull Durham.” Hockey has “Slap Shot.” Football has “Rudy.” Basketball has “Hoosiers.” Now — fi nally — it’s time to roll out the red carpet: Lacrosse will have “Crooked Arrows.”
On May 18, the sport’s fi rst mainstream feature fi lm, and the Native American community’s fi rst family motion picture, will be released in 250 theaters in 50 markets nationwide. “It’s absolutely unique in telling stories in both of those worlds,” said co-producer Mitchell Peck. “But we feel like there’s going to be a great interest well beyond those communities too, that it will permeate popular culture.” “This mines a new genre,” said the movie’s star, Brandon Routh, who
traded the cape he wore in “Superman Returns” for a lacrosse stick and traces ancestry on his father’s side to the Kickapoo Tribe. “People will go for the lacrosse and stay for the story, and everybody else will go for the story and stay for the lacrosse.” Routh (pictured below, second from left) plays Joe Logan, a mixed- blood Native American trying to prove himself to his father, a traditionalist tribal chairman, by coaching a rag- tag reservation lacrosse team of the Sunaquot, the fi ctional seventh tribe of the Haudenosaunee. “I have chosen the manner of your spirit quest: You will return to The Creator’s game,” says Routh’s fi ctional father, Logan, played by Gil Birmingham (“Twilight”). “We call it the Medicine Game for a reason. Let it heal you. Restore pride to our people and their game.”
A Publication of US Lacrosse
No arrow always flies straight. There is nothing wrong with a Crooked Arrow. As long as it follows its own path, it will find its way.
May 2012 >> LACROSSE MAGAZINE 41
©BRYCE VICKMARK; © CROOKED ARROWS
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