Synopsis
Maurice Richard (The Rocket, 2005) is a Canadian biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Charles Binamé cast Roy Dupuis as Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, the Montreal Canadiens winger whose goal-scoring records rewrote NHL history — and who spent his entire career fighting the league's Anglophone establishment for basic respect.
Every honour came through force, on the ice and off it. Julie Le Breton plays his wife Lucille; Stephen McHattie is the league official who blocks his path at every turn. Rémy Girard rounds out a strong ensemble as the story moves from pre-war rinks to the riots that paralysed Montreal in March 1955 after NHL president Clarence Campbell suspended Richard for the season's final games.
Shot largely in French and produced in Quebec, the film treats Richard less as a sports figure and more as a symbol of a people's fight to be heard. Watch Maurice Richard (The Rocket, 2005) online on iFILM.
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