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I first saw this film when I was 12 years old and I remember it as if it were yesterday. Every frame, every line of dialogue sticks in my mind as if with glue. Is it Helen Hunt's mesmerizing voice or John Stockwell's magnetic high school sexuality? Who could ever say, but that log rolling scene does tip the scale in his favor. That's my opinion and I get to have whatever opinion I want because this is my square of writing, alloted to me by the IMBD. Thank you, IMDB, for letting a guy blow off some steam on a Wednesday night. Steam that's been building up for 25 some odd years. Steam a quarterback needs to win the big game against St. Stephen's. And Helen Hunt has got what it takes to bring home the cup or chalice. I can't remember anymore. So, good then. See it, but don't buy it. It's no good if you have to pay for it. Try to catch it on PAX some afternoon when you're in bed with the flu or chronic depression. Go team. love sincerely, F Mt. P

One of my favorite football movies of all time next to Varsity Blues. Helen Hunt is great. This movie is really well done. Hunt pulls it off, it doesn't look cheesy or bad, she really lets it fly. Proof you can do anything you put your mind to. Very inspirational. Cant say enough good things about this movie. Really a hidden gem. Give it a watch, you won't be disappointed.

Quarterback Princess is an inspiring movie. The story takes you through a young girl's struggle to achieve her dream...of being a high school quarterback. You become so engrossed in this movie you root Tami (Helen Hunt) on as if you were part of this story. Tami Maida and her family move from Canada so her father can finish school. Tami desperately wants to be part of the Grizzly Football team. Many people in the town try to disband this idea, they even suggest she can be a cheerleader, but she is given a try-out. To everyone's surprise Tami is an excellent quarterback. The film looks at how everyone treats her different. Her teammates treat her as a football player, her classmates treat her as an outcast, and her boyfriend doesn't know how to treat her, as a girl or a football player? This film will make you want to be one of Tami's supporters and will pull at your heart-strings

This movie the Quarterback Princess is surly a classic, much inspiration for our younger youth and parents alike. You will leave this film with the "I can do anything attitude:)" Having 3 girls of my own, this was one we'll enjoy watching over & over! Who knows, I just may have the next "Quarterback Princess" *smiles* Helen Hunt did an awesome job portraying a high school teen surviving the trials and errors of being the odd "woman out", and overcoming with a winning finish by playing ball and holding her own when it came to the nay sayers of the town. This is a win-win movie that I feel anyone would truly enjoy with family or friends.

This a good movie for inspiration. Girl quarterback wins over not only her school, but also the whole town. She proves she can play a "boys" sport well yet still be a feminine girl. It's definitely a message to girls about them being able to do anything. Some of the dialogue is very much stilted, though, especially that it's obviously designed to get across an empowering message. There is a touching but poorly written scene in which Tami and her mother are talking about the differences in choice their generations have, the mother saying she herself has no regrets choosing a marriage and family even though she had few other choices. She makes a statement that I think sums up the message we girls were given growing up in the 80s: "You can do ANYTHING. You can have EVERYTHING." yet the saddest part of all is that over 20 years later this movie could be remade practically verbatim and still be relevant. I'm sure girls in tackle football would still be fought against in the average American town.

Probably the best but most unrealistic part is that, despite almost the entire town being against Tami playing football, none of the boys on the team have any objections. They're all very supportive of her. That's great for fiction, but I doubt that was entirely true in the real story. Good overall, if you can ignore some of the more uneven parts and some of the mediocre acting.