The Mighty Ducks on Grass, With Spirit Animals

Like The Mighty Ducks, Crooked Arrows centers on the plight of a reluctant coach. Joe Logan (Brandon Routh, who starred in Superman Returns) is a Sunaquat Indian who manages the tribe?s casino in upstate New York. A smarmy investor has approached Logan about expanding the casino operations, promising the (fictional) tribe untold riches if it will devote reservation land to a vast expansion. (Ask the Connecticut Pequots about whether that?s a good idea.) Joe, who privileges money over tradition (we know this because the vanity plate on his Audi reads WAMPUM), petitions the Sunaquat tribal council to approve the expansion. The council agrees, but with one condition: that Joe first ?examine his spirit,? in a manner to be chosen by Joe?s traditionalist father (Gil Birmingham), who fears his son does not have the Sunaquats? best interests at heart. Naturally, the spiritual challenge Joe?s father devises is coaching the tribe?s lacrosse team, a rag-tag band of misfits who are routinely and humiliatingly dispatched by the rich, white prep school teams that now dominate the game the Sunaquats invented. (Well, technically they didn?t invent it, it was a gift from the Creator Spirit?but it?s still annoying that the preppies are so damn good.)

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