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The Mighty Ducks
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Directed byStephen Herek
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CountryUnited States
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Budget$14 million[1]
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The Mighty Ducks (also known as D1: The Mighty Ducks, and Champions in the United Kingdom and Australia) is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film about a youth league hockey team, directed by Stephen Herek and starring Emilio Estevez. It was produced by The Kerner Entertainment Company and Avnet\u2013Kerner Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the first film in The Mighty Ducks film series. In some countries, the home release copies were printed with the title as The Mighty Ducks Are the Champions to avoid confusion with the title of the sequel.\n

The year after the film's release, Disney founded an NHL hockey team, named the \"Mighty Ducks of Anaheim\".\n

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Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is a successful but arrogant Minneapolis defense attorney. After his 30th successful case, he celebrates by going out drinking, but is arrested for drunk driving and sentenced to 500 hours of community service by coaching the local \"District 5\" Pee-Wee hockey team. Bombay has an unpleasant history with the sport: as a youth in 1973, he was the Hawks\u2019 star player but, struggling with the loss of his father, he missed a tie-breaking penalty shot in the final seconds of the championship game, sending the game to overtime in which the Hawks lost, disappointing his hyper-competitive coach, Jack Reilly (Lane Smith).\n

Bombay meets the District 5 team, and realizes the children have no practice facility, equipment, or ability. Their first game with Bombay at the helm is against the Hawks, with Reilly still the Hawks' head coach. District 5 is soundly defeated, 17-0, as Reilly demands the Hawks run up the score. Bombay berates the team for not listening to him, and the players challenge his authority. For the next match, Bombay tries to teach his team how to dive and draw penalties, which results in another loss \u2013 this time to the Jets \u2013 angering the team further. Specifically one player Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson), who refused to fake an injury like Bombay instructed him to. Bombay visits his old mentor Hans (Joss Ackland), who owns a nearby sporting goods store and was in attendance at the game against the Hawks. While there, Bombay recalls that he quit playing hockey after losing his father four months before the championship game, and because Reilly blamed him for the loss due to the missed penalty shot. Hans encourages him to rekindle his childhood passion for the sport by skating in a frozen pond like he did when he was a kid. Realizing the error of his ways, he apologizes to Charlie and his mother at their home.\n

Bombay approaches his boss, Gerald Ducksworth (Josef Sommer), to sponsor the team, allowing them to purchase proper equipment and give Bombay time to teach the players fundamentals. Renamed the Ducks \u2013 after Ducksworth \u2013 the team fights its next game against the Cardinals to a tie. They recruit three new players: Figure skating siblings Tommy (Danny Tamberelli) and Tammy Duncan (Jane Plank), and slap shot specialist and enforcer Fulton Reed (Elden Henson). The potential of Charlie catches Bombay's eye; he takes Charlie under his wing and teaches him some of the tactics he used playing with the Hawks.\n

Bombay learns that, due to redistricting, the Hawks\u2019 star player Adam Banks (Vincent LaRusso) lives in District Five and should be playing for the Ducks, and threatens Reilly into transferring Banks to the Ducks. After overhearing an out-of-context quote about the team, most of the players walk out (except Charlie and Fulton who form a strong friendship), resulting in a forfeit to the Flames. The Ducks lose faith in Bombay and revert to their old habits except Charlie and Fulton.\n

Ducksworth makes a deal with Reilly for the Hawks to keep Banks, which Bombay refuses on the principles of fair play, which Ducksworth berated him about when he started his community service. Left with the choice of letting his team down or being fired from his job, he takes the latter.\n

Bombay manages to regain his players\u2019 trust after they win a crucial match against the Huskies in order to qualify for the playoffs, and Banks \u2013 who decided to play with the Ducks rather than not play hockey at all \u2013 proves to be an asset though Jesse doesn't trust him. The Ducks march through the playoffs with wins against the Hornets and the Cardinals, reaching the championship game against the Hawks. Reilly orders his team to injure Banks to force him out of the game; in spite of this, the Ducks manage to tie the game late in the final period, and Charlie is tripped by a Hawks player as time expires. In precisely the same situation Bombay faced in his youth, Charlie prepares for a game-deciding penalty shot. In stark contrast to Reilly \u2013 who told Bombay that if he missed, he was letting everyone down \u2013 Bombay tells Charlie to take his best shot and that he will believe in him no matter what. Inspired, Charlie fakes out the goalie with a \"triple-deke\" Bombay taught him and scores, winning the state championship.\n

The Ducks players and their families race onto the ice in jubilation, where Bombay thanks Hans for his belief in him and Hans tells Bombay he is proud of him; as Bombay is handed and raises the championship trophy, the team all rally around him and chant \"Ducks!\" repeatedly in triumphant unison. Some days later, Bombay boards a bus to a minor-league tryout, secured for him by the NHL's Basil McRae of the Minnesota North Stars, who played Pee-Wee hockey with him as a youth. Although daunted at the prospect of going up against younger players, he receives the same words of encouragement and advice from the Ducks he had given them, promising to return next season to defend their title.\n

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Basil McRae and Mike Modano both made cameo appearances towards the end of the movie.\n

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The film was written by Steve Brill, who later sued for royalties for the film.[3] Jake Gyllenhaal turned down the role of Charlie Conway.[4] Emilio Estevez was cast in 1991, after Herek was impressed by his performances in Brat Pack films, The Outsiders (1983), The Breakfast Club (1985) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985).\n

It was filmed in several locations in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Principal photography took place between January and April 1992.[1]\n

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The film grossed $50,752,337 in the United States and Canada,[2] becoming a surprising success with audiences. The Mighty Ducks made $54 million in home video rentals according to Video Week magazine in 1992.[5]\n

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The Mighty Ducks received generally lukewarm reviews from critics. It holds a 23% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's consensus reads, \"The Mighty Ducks has feel-good goals, but only scores a penalty shot for predictability\".[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale.[7]\n

Roger Ebert said the film was \"sweet and innocent, and that at a certain level it might appeal to younger kids. I doubt if its ambitions reach much beyond that\", and gave it a 2-star rating.[8] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post described the film as 'Steven Brill, who has a small role in the film, constructed the screenplay much as one would put together some of those particleboard bookcases from Ikea.'[9]\n

Emilio Estevez was surprised at the popularity of the movie series.[10]\n

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The film was released on VHS on April 14, 1993, DVD on April 11, 2000, and on Blu-ray Disc on May 23, 2017.\n

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The unexpected box-office success of the film inspired two sequels, D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) and D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996), and an animated TV series (the latter taking on a science fiction angle with actual anthropomorphic ducks). While both sequels failed to match the original film's gross, they were still financially successful.[11]\n

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  1. ^ a b The Mighty Ducks at the American Film Institute Catalog\n
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  3. ^ a b The Mighty Ducks at Box Office Mojo\n
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  5. ^ \"The 'Mighty Ducks' Trilogy: An Oral History\". Time.com. June 9, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2016.\n
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  7. ^ Peters, Chris (July 27, 2015). \"Jake Gyllenhaal recalls how his parents cost him 'Mighty Ducks' role\". CBSSports.com. Retrieved October 18, 2016.\n
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  9. ^ Malinowski, Erik (November 25, 2015). \"How Mighty Ducks the Movie Became Mighty Ducks the NHL Team\". Esquire. Hearst Communications. Retrieved October 18, 2016.\n
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  11. ^ \"The Mighty Ducks\". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved April 10, 2018.\n
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  13. ^ \"Home - Cinemascore\". CinemaScore. Retrieved July 13, 2020.\n
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  15. ^ Ebert, Roger (October 2, 1992). \"The Mighty Ducks\". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved October 4, 2014.\n
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  17. ^ Kempley, Rita (October 5, 1992). \"'The Mighty Ducks' (PG)\". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 10, 2018.\n
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  19. ^ \"Emilio Estevez on the Success of Mighty Ducks Video\". NHL VideoCenter. National Hockey League. October 18, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2016.\n
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  21. ^ Fox, David J. (October 13, 1992). \"Weekend Box Office A Bang-Up Opening for 'Under Siege'\". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 1, 2010.\n
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This article is about the live-action film. For the animated television series, see Mighty Ducks (TV series).

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\n\nThe Mighty Ducks (also known as D1: The Mighty Ducks) is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Herek and starring Emilio Estevez. It was produced by Avnet\u2013Kerner Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the first film in the Mighty Ducks trilogy.\n

In the UK, South Africa, and Australia, the film was retitled Champions. Subsequently, UK home releases are now titled The Mighty Ducks Are the Champions, reflecting both titles, as well as to possibly avoid confusion with the sequel (retitled as just The Mighty Ducks).\n

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Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is a successful Minneapolis defense attorney, whose truculent courtroom antics have earned him no respect among his peers. After being arrested for drunken driving, Bombay is sentenced to community service by coaching the local \"District 5\" PeeWee hockey team. Bombay has a history with the sport, although his memories are far from pleasant: he blew a penalty shot, costing his team the title and disappointing his hyper-competitive coach, Jack Reilly (Lane Smith). In fact, the movie later shows Reilly with Bombay looking at his string of championship banners and disgustingly saying that the runner-up banner should be taken down.\n

When Bombay meets the team, he realizes the kids have no practice facility, equipment or ability to go with it. The team's first game with Bombay at the helm is against Bombay's old team: the Hawks, the team from the snooty suburb of Edina. Reilly is still head coach and remains bitter about Gordon's shortcoming in that fateful game. District 5 gets pummeled and after Bombay berates the team for not listening to him the players challenge his authority. Meanwhile, Bombay discovers his old mentor and family friend Hans (Joss Ackland) who owns a nearby sporting goods store was in attendance. While visiting him, Bombay recalls that he quit playing hockey after losing his father four months before the championship game. Hans encourages him to rekindle his childhood passion.\n

Bombay approaches his boss, Gerald Ducksworth (Josef Sommer) to sponsor the team, which Ducksworth reluctantly agrees. The result is a complete makeover for the team, both in look (as they can now buy professional equipment) and in skill (as Bombay has more time to teach the kids hockey fundamentals). Now playing as the \"Ducks\", they fight to a tie in the next game and recruit three new players: figure-skating siblings Tommy (Danny Tamberelli) and Tammy Duncan (Jane Plank) and slap shot specialist and enforcer Fulton Reed (Elden Henson). The potential of Ducks player Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson) catches Bombay's eye and he takes him under his wing.\n

Bombay learns that star player for the Hawks, Adam Banks (Vincent Larusso), actually resides in the Ducks' district boundaries and threatens Reilly into transferring Banks to the Ducks. After hearing an out of context quote about them, the Ducks players lose faith in Bombay and revert to their old habits.\n

Ducksworth makes a deal with Reilly about the Hawks keeping Banks, however, Bombay refuses since it would be against fair-play, which Ducksworth berated him about when he started his community service. Left with either the choice of letting his team down or get fired from his job, Bombay takes the latter.\n

Bombay manages to win back the Ducks' trust and Adam Banks proves to be a valuable asset. The Ducks manage to make it to the championship against the Hawks. Despite the Hawks' heavy attacks taking Banks out of the game, the Ducks manage to score a tie and earn a penalty shot in the final seconds of the game. Bombay encourages Charlie to take the shot, reassuring him that even if he fails it will be alright. Charlie manages to score a goal using a technique Gordon taught him.\n

The movie ends with Bombay boarding a bus headed to a minor-league tryout. Although he seems daunted at the prospect of going up against younger players, he receives the same words of encouragement and advice from the Ducks he had given them, promising he will return next season to defend their title.\n

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The film saw the debut of the uniforms similar to the ones worn by the real-life Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, then owned by The Walt Disney Company and that had joined the NHL in the previous year.\n

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Former peewee hockey coach Gordon Bombay is a star in the minor leagues and is expected to make it to the NHL soon. However, after a career-ending knee injury, he returns to Minneapolis. Bombay is then offered a chance to coach a team representing the United States in the Junior Goodwill Games. Team USA consists of many of the old Ducks, in addition to five new players with special talents.\n

The lure of celebrity becomes a distraction to Bombay, who begins to neglect the team in exchange for a luxurious lifestyle. Fortunately, easy victories come over Trinidad and Tobago and Italy in the double-elimination tournament. During this time, Fulton Reed and Dean Portman gain recognition for their enforcer skills, becoming known as the \"Bash Brothers\". Backup goaltender Julie asks Bombay for a chance to play, but he tells her to wait, as current goalie Greg Goldberg is on a hot streak.\n

Reality sets in when the team suffers an embarrassing 12-1 defeat at the hands of Team Iceland, coached by ex-NHL player Wolf \"The Dentist\" Stansson, who is known for his tough reputation. Team USA plays badly, with Julie and Portman ejected from the game. Star center Adam Banks manages to score a goal but gets slashed in the wrist moments later. Frustrated, Bombay drives his players even harder, but they begin to suffer, completely exhausted. Eventually, the team's tutor, Michelle McKay, cancels their practice and confronts Bombay, while the players come across a street hockey team who teaches them how to play like \"the real Team USA\".\n

However, Bombay continues to suffer until Jan, the brother of his mentor, Hans, personally visits him, and reminds him of how he used to love the game. During a match against Team Germany, Bombay fails to arrive on time, forcing Charlie to tell the referee that Michelle is actually \"Coach McKay\". They play poorly, entering the third period tied, until Bombay shows up and apologizes for his behavior. Inspired by their coach's \"return\", the players come back to win the game and advance to the next round. The renewed Bombay finally realizes Adam's wrist injury, benching him despite his complaints. To fill the open roster spot, Charlie recruits street hockey player, Russ Tyler, whose unique \"knucklepuck\" (which rotates end over end toward its target as opposed to spinning about its centerline) secures USA's victory over Russia (who defeated Iceland earlier), advancing USA to the championship game for a rematch against Iceland. Before the game, Adam's injury is healed and returns to Team USA's locker room, only to find they already have a full roster. Charlie gives up his spot on the roster so Adam can play, cementing his position as the true team captain.\n

At first, Iceland appears to be out to dominate Team USA again, but they manage to score one goal. Unfortunately, the Ducks take penalties: Ken picks a fight with an Iceland player (\"stick, gloves, shirt\") after scoring the team's first goal, the Bash brothers celebrate this by fighting with the entire Iceland bench and Dwayne lassoes an opposing player, about to check Connie. Bombay is annoyed because \"this isn't a hockey game, it's a circus.\"\n

After a motivational locker room speech from Bombay and new Duck jerseys from Jan, the team emerges rejuvenated. The Ducks manage to tie the game when Russ outsmarts Team Iceland by disguising himself as Goldberg, so as to prevent himself from being covered and pulling off a successful \"knucklepuck\". The game is forced to go to a five-shot shootout. With a 4-3 score in favor of the Ducks, Gunner Stahl (the tournament's leading scorer) is Team Iceland's final shooter. Bombay knows Gunner favors shooting the glove side after a triple deke, and replaces Goldberg with Julie, who has a faster glove. Gunner advances on Julie and fires a hard slapshot. Although Julie falls to the ice, she slowly turns to look at her glove while the entire stadium (and presumably the home audience of millions) waits in breathless anticipation. She then opens her glove and drops the puck, signifying the game-winning save. With this, the Ducks triumph over Iceland to win the tournament.\n

The movie finishes with the team returning to Minnesota on a plane and sitting around a campfire singing Queen's \"We are the Champions\" as the credits roll.\n

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There are several cameo appearances in D2: The Mighty Ducks from famous athletes:\n

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Mighty Duck Characters: Wildwing Flashblade \u2022 Nosedive Flashblade \u2022 Duke L'Orange \u2022 Tanya Vanderflock \u2022 Mallory McMallard \u2022 Check \"Grin\" Hardwing \u2022 Canard Thunderbeak \u2022 Phil Palmfeather \u2022 Captain Klegghorn \u2022 Thrash & Mookie \u2022 Bernie \"Buzz\" Blitzman \u2022 Borg \u2022 Prince V'Lara \u2022 B.R.A.W.N. \u2022 Tai Quack Do \u2022 Lord Dragaunus \u2022 Siege \u2022 Chameleon \u2022 Wraith \u2022 Hunter Drones \u2022 Dr. Droid \u2022 Asteroth \u2022 Falcone \u2022 Lucretia DeCoy \u2022 Dr. Swindle \u2022 Big Daddy-O Cool \u2022 Dr. Wally Pretorious \u2022 Phineas P. Viper \u2022 Baron Von Licktenstamp \u2022 Alvin Yasbeck \u2022 Stanley Strazinski \u2022 Gargon
\nTV Series Characters: Evan Morrow \u2022 Alex Morrow \u2022 Nick Ganz \u2022 Sofi Hanson-Bhatt \u2022 Stephanie \u2022 Jaden Koobler \u2022 Lauren Gibby \u2022 Maya Kasper \u2022 Logan LaRue \u2022 Adib Samitar \u2022 Tibor Capek \u2022 Havel Capek \u2022 Coach T\n

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The Mighty Ducks
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Directed byStephen Herek
Written bySteven Brill
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CinematographyThomas Del Ruth
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Music byDavid Newman
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  • October 2, 1992 (1992-10-02)
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Running time
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CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14 million[1]
Box office$50.8 million[2]
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The Mighty Ducks (also known as D1: The Mighty Ducks, and Champions in the United Kingdom and Australia) is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film about a youth league hockey team, directed by Stephen Herek and starring Emilio Estevez. It was produced by The Kerner Entertainment Company and Avnet\u2013Kerner Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the first film in The Mighty Ducks film series. In some countries, the home release copies were printed with the title as The Mighty Ducks Are the Champions to avoid confusion with the title of the sequel.\n

The year after the film's release, Disney founded an NHL hockey team, named the \"Mighty Ducks of Anaheim\".\n

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Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is a successful but arrogant Minneapolis defense attorney. After his 30th successful case, he celebrates by going out drinking, but is arrested for drunk driving and sentenced to 500 hours of community service by coaching the local \"District 5\" Pee-Wee hockey team. Bombay has an unpleasant history with the sport: as a youth in 1973, he was the Hawks\u2019 star player but, struggling with the loss of his father, he missed a tie-breaking penalty shot in the final seconds of the championship game, sending the game to overtime in which the Hawks lost, disappointing his hyper-competitive coach, Jack Reilly (Lane Smith).\n

Bombay meets the District 5 team, and realizes the children have no practice facility, equipment, or ability. Their first game with Bombay at the helm is against the Hawks, with Reilly still the Hawks' head coach. District 5 is soundly defeated, 17-0, as Reilly demands the Hawks run up the score. Bombay berates the team for not listening to him, and the players challenge his authority. For the next match, Bombay tries to teach his team how to dive and draw penalties, which results in another loss \u2013 this time to the Jets \u2013 angering the team further. Specifically one player Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson), who refused to fake an injury like Bombay instructed him to. Bombay visits his old mentor Hans (Joss Ackland), who owns a nearby sporting goods store and was in attendance at the game against the Hawks. While there, Bombay recalls that he quit playing hockey after losing his father four months before the championship game, and because Reilly blamed him for the loss due to the missed penalty shot. Hans encourages him to rekindle his childhood passion for the sport by skating in a frozen pond like he did when he was a kid. Realizing the error of his ways, he apologizes to Charlie and his mother at their home.\n

Bombay approaches his boss, Gerald Ducksworth (Josef Sommer), to sponsor the team, allowing them to purchase proper equipment and give Bombay time to teach the players fundamentals. Renamed the Ducks \u2013 after Ducksworth \u2013 the team fights its next game against the Cardinals to a tie. They recruit three new players: Figure skating siblings Tommy (Danny Tamberelli) and Tammy Duncan (Jane Plank), and slap shot specialist and enforcer Fulton Reed (Elden Henson). The potential of Charlie catches Bombay's eye; he takes Charlie under his wing and teaches him some of the tactics he used playing with the Hawks.\n

Bombay learns that, due to redistricting, the Hawks\u2019 star player Adam Banks (Vincent LaRusso) lives in District Five and should be playing for the Ducks, and threatens Reilly into transferring Banks to the Ducks. After overhearing an out-of-context quote about the team, most of the players walk out (except Charlie and Fulton who form a strong friendship), resulting in a forfeit to the Flames. The Ducks lose faith in Bombay and revert to their old habits except Charlie and Fulton.\n

Ducksworth makes a deal with Reilly for the Hawks to keep Banks, which Bombay refuses on the principles of fair play, which Ducksworth berated him about when he started his community service. Left with the choice of letting his team down or being fired from his job, he takes the latter.\n

Bombay manages to regain his players\u2019 trust after they win a crucial match against the Huskies in order to qualify for the playoffs, and Banks \u2013 who decided to play with the Ducks rather than not play hockey at all \u2013 proves to be an asset though Jesse doesn't trust him. The Ducks march through the playoffs with wins against the Hornets and the Cardinals, reaching the championship game against the Hawks. Reilly orders his team to injure Banks to force him out of the game; in spite of this, the Ducks manage to tie the game late in the final period, and Charlie is tripped by a Hawks player as time expires. In precisely the same situation Bombay faced in his youth, Charlie prepares for a game-deciding penalty shot. In stark contrast to Reilly \u2013 who told Bombay that if he missed, he was letting everyone down \u2013 Bombay tells Charlie to take his best shot and that he will believe in him no matter what. Inspired, Charlie fakes out the goalie with a \"triple-deke\" Bombay taught him and scores, winning the state championship.\n

The Ducks players and their families race onto the ice in jubilation, where Bombay thanks Hans for his belief in him and Hans tells Bombay he is proud of him; as Bombay is handed and raises the championship trophy, the team all rally around him and chant \"Ducks!\" repeatedly in triumphant unison. Some days later, Bombay boards a bus to a minor-league tryout, secured for him by the NHL's Basil McRae of the Minnesota North Stars, who played Pee-Wee hockey with him as a youth. Although daunted at the prospect of going up against younger players, he receives the same words of encouragement and advice from the Ducks he had given them, promising to return next season to defend their title.\n

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Basil McRae and Mike Modano both made cameo appearances towards the end of the movie.\n

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The film was written by Steve Brill, who later sued for royalties for the film.[3] Jake Gyllenhaal turned down the role of Charlie Conway.[4] Emilio Estevez was cast in 1991, after Herek was impressed by his performances in Brat Pack films, The Outsiders (1983), The Breakfast Club (1985) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985).\n

It was filmed in several locations in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Principal photography took place between January and April 1992.[1]\n

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The film grossed $50,752,337 in the United States and Canada,[2] becoming a surprising success with audiences. The Mighty Ducks made $54 million in home video rentals according to Video Week magazine in 1992.[5]\n

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The Mighty Ducks received generally lukewarm reviews from critics. It holds a 23% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's consensus reads, \"The Mighty Ducks has feel-good goals, but only scores a penalty shot for predictability\".[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A\" on an A+ to F scale.[7]\n

Roger Ebert said the film was \"sweet and innocent, and that at a certain level it might appeal to younger kids. I doubt if its ambitions reach much beyond that\", and gave it a 2-star rating.[8] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post described the film as 'Steven Brill, who has a small role in the film, constructed the screenplay much as one would put together some of those particleboard bookcases from Ikea.'[9]\n

Emilio Estevez was surprised at the popularity of the movie series.[10]\n

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The film was released on VHS on April 14, 1993, DVD on April 11, 2000, and on Blu-ray Disc on May 23, 2017.\n

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The unexpected box-office success of the film inspired two sequels, D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) and D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996), and an animated TV series (the latter taking on a science fiction angle with actual anthropomorphic ducks). While both sequels failed to match the original film's gross, they were still financially successful.[11]\n

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  1. ^ a b The Mighty Ducks at the American Film Institute Catalog\n
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  3. ^ a b The Mighty Ducks at Box Office Mojo\n
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  5. ^ \"The 'Mighty Ducks' Trilogy: An Oral History\". Time.com. June 9, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2016.\n
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  7. ^ Peters, Chris (July 27, 2015). \"Jake Gyllenhaal recalls how his parents cost him 'Mighty Ducks' role\". CBSSports.com. Retrieved October 18, 2016.\n
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  9. ^ Malinowski, Erik (November 25, 2015). \"How Mighty Ducks the Movie Became Mighty Ducks the NHL Team\". Esquire. Hearst Communications. Retrieved October 18, 2016.\n
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  11. ^ \"The Mighty Ducks\". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved April 10, 2018.\n
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  13. ^ \"Home - Cinemascore\". CinemaScore. Retrieved July 13, 2020.\n
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  15. ^ Ebert, Roger (October 2, 1992). \"The Mighty Ducks\". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved October 4, 2014.\n
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  17. ^ Kempley, Rita (October 5, 1992). \"'The Mighty Ducks' (PG)\". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 10, 2018.\n
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  19. ^ \"Emilio Estevez on the Success of Mighty Ducks Video\". NHL VideoCenter. National Hockey League. October 18, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2016.\n
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  21. ^ Fox, David J. (October 13, 1992). \"Weekend Box Office A Bang-Up Opening for 'Under Siege'\". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 1, 2010.\n
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