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When The Game Stands Tall
Inspired by the true story of the great Bob Ladouceur, a successful football coach, who achieves a great success through his help to the De La Salle team, who struggles against a big failure, the thing that frustrates them, till he manages to help them to regain their self trust, the thing that helps them to achieve a great success.
26 December 1966, Westchester, New York, USA
30 August 1963, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
12 August 1965
16 December 1993, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6 February 1984, USA
15 January 1948, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
14 February 1978, Patterson, Louisiana, USA
8 March 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 20, 2014
We've seen the 'Full eyes, clear hearts, can't lose' ethic before on screen, and more winningly dramatized, but When the Game Stands Tall does a good, and family-friendly, job of encapsulating Ladouceur's 'winning' approach...
August 22, 2014
The real-life story behind When the Game Stands Tall sounds amazing. But for all its exciting sports scenes, the movie version falls flat as drama.
August 22, 2014
When the Game Stands Tall is more manipulative than a hulking chiropractor. It's so busy beatifying its protagonist that it makes him into a grave idol rather than a man.
September 05, 2014
... has its share of embellishments and formulaic tangents, and turns predictable in the second half, with a more traditional structure leading to an obligatory big-game finale.
October 08, 2015
The moral that football isn't everything seems inherently irreconcilable with a football movie, though.
August 22, 2014
When the Game Stands Tall is one of those cliché-riddled feel good movies that, by trying too hard to be inspirational, ends up as cloying and overly sentimental.
August 22, 2014
Most often in its early stages, the melodrama onscreen edges precipitously close to dissolving into a puddle of platitudinous pabulum served in the manner of a rote Sunday school lesson.
November 17, 2014
Mixes bland dialogue, formulaic sports-movie plot points, and vague Christian teachings with some disturbingly naïve racial overtones. The story risks inducing concussion as it pounds and thumps its message home, over and over.
September 01, 2014
A strong contender for the worst football movie ever made...
August 22, 2014
A true tale of high school football achievement becomes a strained, by-the-numbers grab bag of uplift in the Christian sports drama "When the Game Stands Tall."
September 05, 2014
...almost as bad as that moment in cinematic history when the real Buzz Aldrin has a conversation with Optimus Prime. Should be retitled: When the Facts Don't Matter
August 22, 2014
Why must an extraordinary story beget such an ordinary film?
