Storyline
A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
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Cast
Clancy Brown, Ricky Wayne, Judd Lormand, Jim Caviezel, Ser'Darius Blain, Dane Rhodes, Michael Chiklis, Laura Dern, Donna DuPlantier, Sharon Landry, Anthony Michael Frederick, James DuMont, Billy Slaughter, Sandra Taylor, J.D. Evermore, Damon Lipari, Deneen Tyler, John Neisler, Jesse Moore, Christopher Berry, LaJessie Smith, Teri Wyble, Tom Bubrig, Gavin Casalegno, Richard Kohnke, Joe Massingill, Armando Leduc, Liann Pattison, Alexander Ludwig, Evan Cleaver, Terry Dale Parks, Robert Diago DoQui, Matthew Daddario, Renell Gibbs, Craig Tate, Al Vicente, Adella Gautier, Hawn Tran, Stephan James, Matthew Frias, Chase Boltin, Jessie Usher, Les Miles, Terence Rosemore, Anna Margaret, David DeSantos, Mike Bleed, Michael Fletcher, Kristofer Gordon, Marlon Favorite, Sam Malone, Maurice Jones Drew, Payton Bourgeois, Mike Kimmel, Jim Klock, Nathaniel Brown, Zac Waggener, Deric Augustine, Skyler Green, Henry Frost, Jaren Mitchell, Ashtin Fortner, Lanika R. Revader, Jonah Calderini, Douglas Griffin, Cannon Bosarge
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Reviews
75
Nearly as good as the average episode of TV’s “Friday Nights Lights,” which makes it better than most movies and one of the better sports films of recent years.
60
There's no question that a soft-spoken person can be a great leader, but Caviezel underplays Ladouceur to the point that you wonder how the players could even hear him, much less be inspired by him.
58
For all the pains the movie takes to explain why someone shouldn’t play football—to win, to be a star, to defeat others — it never bothers to explain why someone should play the game. It’s a collection of well-intentioned absences with no defining presence to speak of.
50
When the Game Stands Tall is a solid if unsurprising and uninspiring melodrama.
40
It’s an impossible standard, maybe, but in 42 minutes, TV’s "Friday Night Lights" delivered all-star-level emotional complexity and action. When the Game Stands Tall is strictly JV squad.
