If you're a Detroit Red Wings fan, you're going to like this:

Showing at the 2019 Freep Film Festival, 'Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story' opens at the Patriot Theater at the War Memorial in Grosse Pointe, and at Emagine Theatres in Michigan starting Thursday (watch the trailer below).

The film presents an intimate portrait of the life and career of Probert, who played for the Red Wings in 1985-94, and was one half of the "Bruise Brothers" with teammate Joey Kocur.

It adds heartbreaking complexity to the Red Wings enforcer and all-time penalty leader, who died in 2010 of heart failure. Off the ice, Probert emerges as a kind, flawed soul who loved his wife and kids while battling the demons of addiction and neurodegenerative disease.

After the film Thursday, Free Press sports columnist Jeff Seidel talks to director Geordie Day and Tierney Probert, Bob Probert’s daughter.

On Friday, Free Press sports writer Helene St. James talks to Day, Tierney Probert and Dani Probert, Bob Probert’s widow and an executive producer of the film.

The film will show at these Emagine locations in the coming days: Birch Run, Canton, Hartland, Macomb, Novi, Palladium, Rochester Hills, Royal Oak, and Saline.

Tickets are available here or can be purchased at the theatre box office.

Read more information about the film and the annual Freep Film Festival.

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> Emagine showings schedule

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