Goon

Goon is a 2011 Canadian sports comedy film directed by Michael Dowse, written by Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, and starring Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Marc-André Grondin, Kim Coates and Eugene Levy. The film concerns the exceedingly nice but somewhat dimwitted Doug Glatt (Scott), who unexpectedly finds personal and professional fulfillment after becoming the enforcer for a minor league ice hockey team. Despite receiving largely positive reviews, the film was a box office bomb, only earning $7 million against its $12 million budget. After premiering on Netflix it became an unexpected success, leading to an increase in DVD sales and VOD downloads, ultimately resulting in a sequel being greenlit. The sequel, Goon: Last of the Enforcers, was released on March 17, 2017, with Baruchel serving as director. Plot Doug Glatt is a polite, kind-hearted, but dim-witted bouncer at a bar in the fictional hockey crazed town of Orangetown Massachusetts. He feels ostracized from society, especially since his father and brother are both highly educated and successful physicians.