Gridiron Gang

Gridiron Gang ( Gridiron Gang ) is an American film released in 2006., Starring Dwayne " The Rock" Johnson and Xzibit. Directed the sports drama leads Phil Joanou from a screenplay by Jeff Maguire. The film is based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 football season.

Action

Sean Porter ( Dwayne " The Rock" Johnson) is a probation officer in a juvenile detention center, where he wants to turn into a football team together with his colleague, Malcolm Moore ( Xzibit ), a group of juvenile felons in four weeks. Faced with power rivalry and hatred between the members of his team, Porter tries to give the occupants a sense of self-respect and responsibility. Despite initial difficulties, they even make it to the playoffs and winning. But then you lose the game for the championship. Nevertheless, some players on Football, only this time professionally, play.

Since returning, according to statistics approximately 75 percent of these juvenile inmates return to jail or end up dead on the road, Porter and Moore are seemingly insurmountable obstacles against. In addition, nobody wants to compete against convicted criminals. Only through hard work and a lot of motivation to Porter and his team can fight their way to a second chance.

Movie Start

Premiere was in the U.S. on 15 September 2006. In Germany the film was on 4 January 2007 in the cinemas.

Info

  • " Gridiron Gang " is based on a true story, was inspired by the 1993's award-winning documentary of the same name, and filmed on location. Production costs amounted to approximately 30 million U.S. dollars.
  • " Gridiron Gang " has already played at his Box office weekend in the U.S., a 15 million U.S. dollars and ended up as # 1 on the U.S. box office. The film played in the U.S., a total of around 38 million U.S. dollars. Worldwide he played a 50 million U.S. dollars.

Press and reviews

Granted, the story is not original for Peter Uehling. "The film is not afraid to stir his audience on quite conventional manner Nevertheless, it is in its straightforwardness also strong He backs his characters not psychologically, seals them at no ulterior motivations, it also brings its objective problems to the point:. . This is done, these are the consequences, and that you can do about it., the film spells out the not with all hardness, it is decorated in light and camera a bit too warm and soft. however, that he leaves on distance to cheaply stark images of brutality and misery. "

January 4, 2007 | Berliner Zeitung

Dwayne " The Rock" Johnson is changing according to Michael Kohler to an unmistakable sign of a well-made B -Picture. The " mixture of genres is not very original, but very solid staged in aesthetic and equipped with the right touch of realism. A liberal mind blowing with this appeared after a true story breaking drama behind bars, and one may assume that just the The Rocks choice of roles has influenced. impression of the facts loyalty try director Phil Joanou and author Jeff Maguire to corroborate not only in the citation of the actual recidivism rate, but up in individual terms into it. "

January 2, 2007 | filmdienst 01 /2007

As Margret Köhler know, " was the way, actually filmed at Camp Kilpatrick in order to preserve the authenticity. And also some ex - Mustang - players act as extras with. Though Joanou loses the fate of his proteges towards the end of something out of sight and is interested primarily for their athletic achievements, but if uncredited excerpts from the documentary run and is reported as members of the first team made ​​their way to a life without crime and the Gridiron Gang have passed, you are reconciled. "

January 1, 2007 | br- online.de

Figures

These figures are inmates or staff of the prison.

Comments

  • During a training scene in the movie "The Rock" has the number 94 on his jersey, he wore this in his time with the Miami Hurricanes.
  • The logo of the Mustangs in the film is the same as that of the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League. This club played "The Rock" after college, he was injured, however, and was taken out of the squad.
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