Junior Majeur

Junior Majeur is a Canadian sports drama film, directed by Éric Tessier and released in 2017.

[1] A sequel to the 2012 film The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (Les Pee-Wee 3d: L'hiver qui a changé ma vie), the film centres on Janeau Trudel (Antoine Olivier Pilon) and Joey Boulet (Rémi Goulet), who are now playing for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and hopeful of getting chosen in the NHL Entry Draft, while Julie (Alice Morel-Michaud) has given up on hockey due to the reduced opportunities for female players at the higher levels of the sport, and is now a junior sports reporter with the local newspaper.

[2] The film's cast also includes Normand Daneau, Claude Legault, Patrice Robitaille, Madeleine Péloquin and Edith Cochrane.

[5] Five years after winning the Tournoi Pee-Wee de Québec, Janeau Trudel plays for Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship in Saint-Petersburg Russia.

They take part in the final, where they lose against the Russian National Team, led by Yuri Karpov.

He is celebrated at a local bar, where he reconnects with Julie and Joey Boulet, his teammate and best friend.

Joey is also approached by Nathalie Leblanc, the director of player services of the league, to talk about his drinking problem.

Janeau decides to take his car and drive to Drummondville to tell the truth to Joey, but by the time he gets there, it is already too late.

He announces the news to his drunk father, who shows no remorse about what happened, arguing that Janeau had it coming.