Fan Connection, The

[Played March 3 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Mary Wall's entertaining, award-winning, moving, low-budget, well-paced, 93-minute, 2019 documentary that focuses on three sets of struggling, skeptical, diehard Buffalo Sabres fans in 2012, including cerebral-palsy-afflicted Mark Crehan who desperately wants to be able to drive, widow Renée Tarrant who lost her hockey-loving husband Christopher and her teenage daughter Hannah grieves the loss of her father, and elderly couple Frances and Mickey Davidovich cared for by adult daughter Michel Coffey who has a tracheotomy, in the Rust Belt city of Buffalo, New York, who have dreamed for years of their hockey team winning the Stanley Cup and consists of hand-held vérité film footage and insightful commentary by passionate Buffalo Sabres fans (such as Philip Merrillees, Jerry Guzman, Samantha Nephew, Darrell Shepherd, Rob Ray, Don Dauman, Ntari Ali, Sarah Cudmore, Elissa Banas, James Wright, Patrick Allen, Dan Ball, Patrick Veltri, and Peter Faint), former hockey players Don Luce and Cory Martin, sports journalist Mike Harrington, psychology professor Dr. Mark Seery, columnist Rod Watson, urban and regional planning professor Dr. Henry L. Taylor, RiverWorks Doug Swift, and art critic Colin Dabkowski.
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