by Walter Chaw Closer in spirit to Mystery, Alaska
than to the similarly Olympics - inspired Cool Runnings, Men with Brooms is an underdog sports intrigue mashed together with a bedroom farce — and neither dog - eared formula is handled with very much originality, while uncomfortable subplots concerning adultery, alcoholism, and
healing father / son
rifts (see also Hoosiers) vie for a level of pathos that always feels out of place in what is essentially The Bad News Bears (or The Replacements, or Slap Shot) for curling.
In some cases, you may be able to convince your partner that all isn't lost, and that you are more
than willing to go with them to a marriage counselor to try and
heal the
rift.