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When The Game Stands Tall
The journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur, who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
16 December 1993, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12 April 1957, Chico, California, USA
15 January 1948, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
27 January 1975, Los Angeles County, California, USA
29 February 1992, Maryland, USA
5 November 1968, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
28 July 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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.
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
September 01, 2014
A strong contender for the worst football movie ever made...
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.
August 22, 2014
Why must an extraordinary story beget such an ordinary film?
October 08, 2015
The moral that football isn't everything seems inherently irreconcilable with a football movie, though.
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."
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
