On May 2, 2015, after months of community rallying, Johnstown, Pa. — the city that served as inspiration for the popular hockey
movie, «
Slap Shot» — was named the first - ever Kraft Hockeyville ™ USA.
A heap of bad history, the
movie rewrites the one - sided feud between the early electric power moguls Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) into a clumsy public - domain mockbuster of The Prestige; you can almost hear director Alfonso Gomez - Rejon (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl) trying to
slap himself awake as he inserts overhead
shots, canted angles, zooms, and wide - angle Tom Hooper - isms into every scene.