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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: Dec 22, 2006
Running Time: 128 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Based on true events, "We Are Marshall" tells an inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. For decades, players, coaches, fans and families came together in Huntington to cheer on Marshall University's "Thundering Herd." For this team and this community, Marshall football was more than just a sport, it was a way of life. But on a fateful night in 1970, while traveling back to Huntington after a game in North Carolina, 37 members of Marshall's football team, plus coaching staff and team boosters, were killed in a plane crash. As those left behind tried to cope with the loss of their loved ones, they found hope and strength in the leadership of Jack Lengyel, a young coach who was determined to rebuild Marshall's football program and in the process help to heal a community.
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Jack Lengyel
Red Dawson
President Dedmon
Paul Griffen
Nate Ruffin
Tom Bogdan
Carole Dawson
Sandy Lengyel
Annie Cantrell
Reggie Oliver
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reviews
PETER TRAVERS -
December 12, 2006
This is a football movie, but good taste is the only thing that gets kicked around. Who would you pick to direct the true story (oh, those words!) of West Virginia's Marshall University football team, after all the players and the coaches (save one) are killed in a 1970 plane crash? Why, McG, of course, the auteur of Charlie's Angels and TV's The O.C. I gave Mr. G the benefit of the doubt until he amped up the treacle past the legal limit. Even the reliable Matthew McConaughey hams it to the…
You know how it begins and you know how it ends, but We Are Marshall will still make a sports fan cheer. Its still the same old triumph against the odds, but it's a solid version of that. Story Tragedy strikes the Marshall University community when a plane crash claims the lives of most of the football team, coaches and some fans. With the whole town traumatized, university president Donald Dedmond (David Strathairn) thinks it's best to cancel the football program, but remaining players, led by…
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