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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
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- Drehbuch
- Hauptbesetzung
- Auszeichnungen
- 2 Gewinne & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt
John Henry Marshall
- Matt Kibbs
- (as John Henry Marshall III)
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Having this movie shot in my hometown (Great Falls, Montana), I answered a local casting call for extras. Blink and you'll miss me in the bonfire/party scene. My high school (Great Falls High) was the school used in the beginning of the film, and the locker room the team is in happens to be the girl's locker room. David Morse's character lives above a vacuum place downtown. The hospital in the movie used to actually be the old Colombus hospital, but is now a office building.
The twins in the movie (Matt and Paul Pippinich), I went to school with for 7 years, and that old orange truck is theirs. Matt played clarinet in a dixieland jazz band.
When I saw this movie at the Wilma theater in Missoula, MT, one of the directors was there to answer questions. He said that they chose Great Falls (pop. approx. 60,000) for shooting "because it was sort of the town that time forgot." In some ways, this is true, but the city is not as run down and rural as it appears in the movie.
Overall, I found myself enjoying this movie more for the "hey, I know him!" or "I lived 2 miles from there" situations. While this wasn't a movie that I would want to watch repeatedly, I still highly suggest it for rental. It's more than just a "sports" movie.
Also, a stellar soundtrack that makes the movie that much better.
The twins in the movie (Matt and Paul Pippinich), I went to school with for 7 years, and that old orange truck is theirs. Matt played clarinet in a dixieland jazz band.
When I saw this movie at the Wilma theater in Missoula, MT, one of the directors was there to answer questions. He said that they chose Great Falls (pop. approx. 60,000) for shooting "because it was sort of the town that time forgot." In some ways, this is true, but the city is not as run down and rural as it appears in the movie.
Overall, I found myself enjoying this movie more for the "hey, I know him!" or "I lived 2 miles from there" situations. While this wasn't a movie that I would want to watch repeatedly, I still highly suggest it for rental. It's more than just a "sports" movie.
Also, a stellar soundtrack that makes the movie that much better.
A melancholy story that is carried by its tone & well shot scenes. Unfortunately the writing is so off putting that the purpose is lost in the strange mix. Serious subject matter but never properly examined with weird acting.
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. A melancholy story that is carried by its tone & well shot scenes. Unfortunately the writing is so off putting that the purpose is lost in the strange mix. Serious subject matter but never properly examined with weird acting.
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. A melancholy story that is carried by its tone & well shot scenes. Unfortunately the writing is so off putting that the purpose is lost in the strange mix. Serious subject matter but never properly examined with weird acting.
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. A melancholy story that is carried by its tone & well shot scenes. Unfortunately the writing is so off putting that the purpose is lost in the strange mix. Serious subject matter but never properly examined with weird acting.
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. A melancholy story that is carried by its tone & well shot scenes. Unfortunately the writing is so off putting that the purpose is lost in the strange mix. Serious subject matter but never properly examined with weird acting.
Needs to be subtitled sometimes, t'was either the accent or the poor sound system. Unfortunately I'm not into any kind of sport so that does not help but now know a little bit more about American football. A good first time effort.
I must have been standing next the to the last reviewer in the hallway (at the Park City Library) at Sundance. Morse walked by along with the directors. I managed to corral Andrew Smith and ask him about the movie. (These directors LOVE to talk about their work.)
First of all, this is not a great movie, and may never be fit for the mass market. But it is, I think, a good movie and a very powerful and thought-provoking one. My initial reaction, which I passed onto Smith, was that I was moved by the internal conflict in this unusual coming-of-age story. What kind of man is Gosling going to become? How will he deal not just with the peer pressures and love interests, but with societal prejudices and the essence of humanity, compassion and kindness. Interestingly, I learned that an early tagline considered for the film was something like "What makes a man?"
David Morse's performance is absolutely incredible in this movie. I spoke to a film critic about it and he said he thought Morse was the best American actor that no one has heard of. It is an extremely challenging and enigmatic role that he plays with a poignant, compelling and believable complexity. I was at the same time deeply moved, repulsed, angered and sympathetic. I was reminded that there is good and bad in all of us, and that the demons within are part of the essence of humanity.
Maybe too deep and philosophical for a movie about 8-man football. And that's just it--it's a situational contrast that's unexpected and jarring. If you ever get a chance to see this film, grab it.
First of all, this is not a great movie, and may never be fit for the mass market. But it is, I think, a good movie and a very powerful and thought-provoking one. My initial reaction, which I passed onto Smith, was that I was moved by the internal conflict in this unusual coming-of-age story. What kind of man is Gosling going to become? How will he deal not just with the peer pressures and love interests, but with societal prejudices and the essence of humanity, compassion and kindness. Interestingly, I learned that an early tagline considered for the film was something like "What makes a man?"
David Morse's performance is absolutely incredible in this movie. I spoke to a film critic about it and he said he thought Morse was the best American actor that no one has heard of. It is an extremely challenging and enigmatic role that he plays with a poignant, compelling and believable complexity. I was at the same time deeply moved, repulsed, angered and sympathetic. I was reminded that there is good and bad in all of us, and that the demons within are part of the essence of humanity.
Maybe too deep and philosophical for a movie about 8-man football. And that's just it--it's a situational contrast that's unexpected and jarring. If you ever get a chance to see this film, grab it.
Ok, so I saw this movie at this year's Sundance, and I was sorely unimpressed. It took a good fifteen minutes of footage before there was an edit or a line of dialogue that made any sense, and it took another 30 minutes before the ham-fisted script gave way to a working plot that wasn't contingent on a close-up of Ryan Gosling's smile or contrived moralizing. After the first 45 minutes however, the script blossomed into a watch-able albeit not completely entertaining or thought-provoking. The highlights certainly include both Gosling and Morse's acting, Gosling being an up-and-coming star, and Morse being an extremely well-established character actor with a good feel for disparate emotions. As a sidenote, after the screening I was talking a little smack about the movie to some of my friends when David Morse walked right behind me--He looks like the nicest guy in the world, but he's a solid 6'2" and probably outweighs me by 50 pounds. I removed my foot from my mouth and promptly changed the subject.
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- WissenswertesScreenplay was developed in the Sundance Lab.
- PatzerThe microphone that the yodeling band gather round is a Sennheiser MD441, which has a tight, end-on pickup pattern. Singing into it sideways as they are, the would hardly have been picked up.
- Zitate
Roy Chutney: My father told me if I was hard enough, I wouldn't break. He lied. Everything breaks.
- VerbindungenFeatured in The 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2003)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 500.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 13.411 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 1.461 $
- 12. Jan. 2003
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 13.411 $
- Laufzeit
- 1 Std. 52 Min.(112 min)
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.35 : 1
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