What happens when you don't cut and run? What happens if you fight like all hell instead? Marshall University found out and their story is the ECM Movie of the Week.
We Are Marshall begins on a serious note with tragedy interspersed with sport. A plane returning from Greenville, North Carolina crashed into a mountain near Huntington, West Virginia. Everyone aboard perished...players, coaches and fans of the Marshall University Football team. The entire town is absolutely devastated. The school's board of directors decide to put an end to the program before one of the players (who remained in Huntington) intervenes. He finds support in the entire town and also Marshall's President Donald Dedmon.
After much hard work, Dedmon finds Jack Lengyel to be the new Thundering Herd coach. But winning isn't easy...and the cut and run option looks very VERY inviting...sound familiar?
Even if you're not a football fan you'll love this movie! Here is the trailer!
Good video I found.
We Are Marshall begins on a serious note with tragedy interspersed with sport. A plane returning from Greenville, North Carolina crashed into a mountain near Huntington, West Virginia. Everyone aboard perished...players, coaches and fans of the Marshall University Football team. The entire town is absolutely devastated. The school's board of directors decide to put an end to the program before one of the players (who remained in Huntington) intervenes. He finds support in the entire town and also Marshall's President Donald Dedmon.
After much hard work, Dedmon finds Jack Lengyel to be the new Thundering Herd coach. But winning isn't easy...and the cut and run option looks very VERY inviting...sound familiar?
Even if you're not a football fan you'll love this movie! Here is the trailer!
Good video I found.
8 comments:
There have been a few pretty good sports movies out the last few years.
This one ranks right up there with "Hoosiers" and "Cinderella Man" (past ECM Movies of the Week) IMO! As an East Carolina guy you hear a lot from folks who went to ECU back in '70 and remember when this happened.
Interestingly, my dad knew Red Dawson (played by Matthew Fox) while he was at Florida State. It's sad that after the 1971 season at Marshall, Dawson never coached football again.
we will see this one. for some strange reason - we NEVER watch sports on t.v., but love movies made ABOUT sports...hmmmm...
have you ever done a review of "my big fat greek wedding"?
that is such a good movie with very little cursing and only one love scene - i found it touched every nerve in my being!
Hi Nanc,
It's been a while but I have seen "MBFGW." I haven't reviewed it yet... is there a conservative angle to the movie? I can't remember.
marriage, family, values...with the exception of the pre-marital sex...
Maybe the "40 year old Virgin" should be my next flick? :0P
i've never heard of that one...
It's...different...
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