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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Feb 22, 2002
Running Time: 99 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Once a major football hero, but now famously degenerate after seeming to have thrown a crucial international match, Danny Meehan is arrested for drunk driving and assaulting an officer. He is sentenced to prison where he becomes involved in coaching a prisoner's football team. Danny relearns the joy of victory and reclaims his sense of himself as a man by coaching convicts on the prisoners team, which is eventually pitted against a team of the hated guards.
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Director
Danny Meehan
'Doc'
Prison Governor
Burton
'Massive'
'Trojan'
Ratchet
Sykes
Tracey
Bob Likely
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From Story
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reviews
The problem with this movie, in addition to the clichéd characters, rote story and mediocre performances, is that soccer inherently isn't as violent and interesting to American audiences as our much more familiar sport of football. There's just something about a bunch of massive, glowering linebackers brutally crunching helmets during a scrimmage or taking down a running back in a punishing tackle that you just don't get out of a soccer movie, no matter how aggressive and dramatic you try to…
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