Gridiron Gang (Blu-ray) PG-13

One goal. A second chance.
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 22, 2014
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Mill Creek Entertainment

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... as Robert Aldrich proved in The Longest Yard, a football movie should be able to hit harder. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Sep 15, 2006
GRIDIRON GANG gains significant momentum from Jeff Cutter's amped-up photography, most notably on the gridiron itself.
New York Times
Sep 15, 2006
Rating: B- -- If The Rock could clone himself to appear in juvenile halls across the country, the recidivism rate would get body-slammed within a few weeks.
AV Club
Sep 23, 2006
Rating: 2/5 -- Watchable, decently made drama with some strong performances, but the script is disappointing given the real-life story behind the film. Full Review
ViewLondon
Feb 1, 2007
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Gridiron entertains and makes a powerful point about the faults inherent in the penal system, particularly for youths with hopes of rehabilitation. Full Review
USA Today
Sep 15, 2006
Rating: C- -- Dwayne Johnson pushes his emotionally charged performance so hard that you think he might pop a blood vessel. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
Apr 25, 2009
... a lugubrious tutorial on the importance of being a winner. Full Review
Washington Post
Sep 15, 2006

Product Description:

In 1990, coaches Sean Porter and Malcolm Moore took the Kilpatrick Mustangs--a football team of hard-core juvenile offenders from California's Camp Kilpatrick juvenile detention center--through their inaugural season, in which they reached the regional championships. In 1993, an Emmy-winning documentary, GRIDIRON GANG, aired on U.S. television. In this fictionalized version of the same name, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as Porter, the coach who uses sports as a means to instill self-esteem into a group or boys for whom crime is a way of life.

A former troubled youth who used football as a means to stay off of the streets, Porter, along with Malcolm Moore (Xibit) now presides over Camp Kilpatrick, where the inmates are gang members, murderers, and drug dealers. Among them are Willie Weathers (Jade York), a gang member doing time for a botched act of revenge. Showing that old rivalries hold true even away from the streets, fellow inmate and rival gang member Calvin Owens (David Thomas) won't let Willie forget that they are sworn enemies. But once Porter introduces football as an outlet, the common goal of winning unites them in ways that no one expected. Sports films are not known for harboring O-Henry-like twists at their conclusions, and GRIDIRON GANG is no exception, but director Phil Joanou (STATE OF GRACE) keeps the proceedings gritty (especially for a PG-13 rating), giving us not only the uplifting and exciting football sequences, but also a handful of heart-pounding--and somewhat graphic--scenes of gang violence, and former Yes member Trevor Rabin's effective score is a nice alternative to the typical pop soundtrack. Not all sweetness and light, GRIDIRON GANG is fine addition to the realm of cinematic sports, leavening the sap with a copious counter-dose of realism.

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