Dave Thomas, Jaime Renee Smith, Jamie Renee Smith

When hockey ace Steven Westover and his kid sister, Tara, move with their family from California to the snowy British Columbia town of Nelson, they have more than a little trouble adjusting to their n...( read more  read more... )ew environment. Steven finds that his new hockey team, the Nelson Nuggets, are a bunch of dispirited losers who'd rather fight than play the game and because of her hearing disability, Tara feels like a bit of an outcast amongst her new classmates. However, everything changes for the better when they come across a highly communicative chimp named Jack who not only knows sign language, but also has one helluva slap shot.

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PG, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Robert Vince

Release Date: October 20, 2000

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DVD Release Date: January 23, 2001

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  • November 5, 2008
    I have learned to overly hate sport playing monkeys sense they do not even play the sports right. Very bad movies
  • June 23, 2009
    MVP was quite a good film, I liked the monkey playing hockey, it was kinda funny to see.
  • February 20, 2009
    a really nice family movie..
  • November 1, 2008
    A three-year-old chimpanzee Cousin Skeeter is involving in sign languages. Dr. Kendall (Lomax Study) is accidentally sent Jack the Chimp (Bernie, Mack, and Louie) to end up in Canada. Jack befriends a lonely teenager named Steven Westover (Kevin Zeger) & his deaf sister, Tara (J...( read more)amie Renee Smith). Jack has an uncanny ability to play the sport of hockey to joins Steven's junior league hockey team.
  • October 21, 2008
    I own it, so I might as well see it once.
  • May 31, 2008
    i have seen this on cable and it's kinda cute
  • April 6, 2008
    a cool movie about a monkey plaing the coolest game on earth. VERY funny
  • March 1, 2008
    This family movie with a chimpanzee is so funny and surprised to see a deaf girl appear to use her sign languages who befriends a chimp to communicate each other. But sometimes it looks ridiculous with lots of mistake in the scenes between a girl and chimp while they are acting....( read more) In the ice-hockey game that gives me good memory since one of my best and favourite family movie, The Mighty Ducks.
  • December 12, 2007
    a good hockey playing chimp and i love this film alot, but not good at the sad part

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