Heads up good sports film playing tonight at the fest.
Sunday, Sep. 25, 6:45 pm
Uptown Stage & Screen - Screen 1
Hope, courage, love and trust are all elements of this inspiring movie based on the best selling book, Walter Gretzky: On Family, Hockey and Healing. This riveting and emotionally charged movie tells the real life story of Walter Gretzky’s struggle to regain his life and memory after a stroke in 1991. Not only the world’s most famous hockey dad, Walter is a devoted family man who mentors and coaches hockey’s would-be “Great One.” His life changes forever with this stroke as suddenly—priceless memories (including recollection of Wayne’s record-smashing career) are gone. His world becomes one of slurred speech, painful headaches, blurred vision and problems walking. Even the simplest of tasks like buttoning a shirt to tying his shoes becomes a great difficulty.
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