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When The Game Stands Tall
Based on the true story of a talented and ambitious football coach Bob Ladouceur, who achieves a great success, who takes the De La Salle, and he breaks the records of all sports in America, as he helps them to move on the big failure they face, till they achieve such a great success.
29 February 1992, Maryland, USA
14 February 1978, Patterson, Louisiana, USA
16 December 1993, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12 June 1996, Lecompte, Louisiana, USA
26 July 1966, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
10 February 1967, Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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.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.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."September 01, 2014
A strong contender for the worst football movie ever made...October 08, 2015
The moral that football isn't everything seems inherently irreconcilable with a football movie, though.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 MatterAugust 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
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
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 one of those cliché-riddled feel good movies that, by trying too hard to be inspirational, ends up as cloying and overly sentimental.August 22, 2014
Why must an extraordinary story beget such an ordinary film?