Goon (2012)
Directed by Michael Dowse
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling, is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate, his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.
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Some of his scenes with Alison Pill, whose character's low self-esteem stems from a bit of sleeping around, reminded me of the unbearably moving courtship between innocent cowboy/outlaw John Wayne and newly reformed prostitute Claire Trevor in John Ford's " Stagecoach ."