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Necessary Roughness
Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must start the season with a host of new coaches and players, a struggling college football team is forced to turn to a rag-tag group of misfits.
13 February 1969, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
16 December 1949, USA
29 March 1955, Tyler, Texas, USA
10 July 1960, Davenport, Iowa, USA
2 December 1939, Tennessee, USA
21 June 1965, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
31 October 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
19 October 1962, Atmore, Alabama, USA
14 June 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 April 1955, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
10 May 1955, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
15 January 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
18 May 1938, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
28 January 1957, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
January 24, 2014
Too bad the lowbrow laughs were shortchanged by a tired script about misfits and loners banding together to gain a little self-respect.
January 24, 2014
In the end, and from the viewpoint of a country where polytechnics can barely afford books, it's hard not to identify with the dean who resents all the time and energy wasted on football in his supposed institute of learning.
January 24, 2014
Suffice it to say that Necessary Roughness is not particularly rough and is certainly not necessary.
January 24, 2014
Necessary Roughness has the right kind of rambunctious spirit for this kind of picture -- even if it's not quite as inventive as similar movies like the recent baseball send-up, Major League.
January 24, 2014
The shameless commercialism and hypocrisy of big-time college football is a target as inviting as a receiver wide open in the end zone. But the muddled huddle that is Necessary Roughness is one long fumble strewn with offensive lines.
May 19, 2015
Awful '90s football story with hard hits, profanity, cliches
January 24, 2014
An amiable comedy.
January 24, 2014
The film itself is a genial, slight, entirely predictable football comedy, but it serves Bakula well.
January 24, 2014
An American football comedy which replays all the situations and clichés from the baseball saga Major League, but with a minor-league cast and clumsy direction from Stan Dragoti.
January 24, 2014
As they say in football, pass.
March 26, 2009
This gridiron comedy piles up cliches the way Notre Dame racks up yardage, with an option-variety screenplay that promiscuously pitches the story in multiple directions.
January 24, 2014
For every sharp one-liner about a pampered college football team that's "so corrupt it could use its yearbook photos as mug shots," there's a brain-numbing plot development that's straight out of a desperate sitcom.
