Whistler Film Festival 2016: Victor Walk

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      No hockey fan would have been disappointed if Victor Walk had focused exclusively on Theoren Fleury for an hour and a half.

      Once the game’s most dominant player, he was also among the most troubled, and Victor Walk starts with Fleury recalling his playing years as a blur of booze, coke, and strippers.

      And then it becomes something more. During his teens Fleury was repeatedly sexually abused by former minor-hockey coach Graham James.

      Now clean, he’s become a spokesman for a staggering eight million abuse victims across the country, dozens of whom share their stories as he makes a 400-kilometre trek he calls the Victor Walk from Toronto to Ottawa. His fellow survivors are everyday folk making the painful transition, like Fleury, from victim to victor.

      Prepare to be moved by their courage.

      Maury Young Arts Centre, December 1 (10 p.m.); Squamish Lil’Wat Cultural Centre, December 2 (3 p.m.)

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