The Miracle Match
by David Anspaugh
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Actor: Costas Mandylor, Gavin Rossdale, Gerard Butler, Jay Rodan, Wes BentleyDirector: David Anspaugh
Brand: Team Marketing
Producer: Angelo Pizzo
Writer: Angelo Pizzo
Producer: Billy Higgins
Producer: Ginger T. Perkins
Producer: Greg Johnson
Producer: Howard Baldwin
Writer: Geoffrey Douglas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
Published: 2006-09-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 05203300
Color: Multi
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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- In the spirit of REMEMBER THE TITANS, MIRACLE, and THE ROOKIE, THE MIRACLE MATCH is the incredible story about the men behind one of the all-time greatest upsets in sports history. Two weeks before the 1950 World Cup, a ragtag group of recreational soccer players from St. Louis and New York were chosen to represent the USA in Brazil. Consumed with conflicts personal, cultural, and playing styles t
Movie Reviews of The Miracle Match
Movie Review: GOTL
Summary: 5 Stars
From the team that wrote and produced "Hoosiers" and "Rudy", this David-and-Goliath type feel-good movie also tugs at the heartstrings.
True story about, arguably, the greatest upset ever in World Cup history. Kind of as if a team of MLB baseball all-stars had traveled to the Brazil for a world baseball championship, and had lost against a British baseball team of amateurs and semipros. Unthinkable.
The U.S. coach, Bill Jeffrey, was then the Penn State University coach and will go down as one of the all time winningest coaches in NCAA soccer history. The PSU soccer stadium, Jeffery Field, is named after him. The player that assisted on that famous goal, Walter Bahr, was also a great coach at PSU after Jeffrey. Bahr's sons, Matt & Chris, were soccer All-Americans at PSU and went on to successful NFL kicking careers in the 70's and 80's. Matt won Superbowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers and NY Giants.
When the 1-0 score came across the wires, the British media initially thought it was a typo and some reported it as a 10-0 win over the Americans in their morning papers. After that 1-0 loss, the British NEVER wore those blue jerseys again - They currently either wear a white top or red top.
Summary of The Miracle Match
In the spirit of REMEMBER THE TITANS, MIRACLE, and THE ROOKIE, THE MIRACLE MATCH is the incredible story about the men behind one of the all-time greatest upsets in sports history. Two weeks before the 1950 World Cup, a ragtag group of recreational soccer players from St. Louis and New York were chosen to represent the USA in Brazil. Consumed with conflicts ? personal, cultural, and playing styles ? they had mere days to become a team. And then they had to play the British, the best team in the world. Inspired by a newfound belief in the team, their passion and talent turned into pure magic on the field ? and the unthinkable happened. Filled with heart-stopping action, and featuring Patrick Stewart, this triumphant story is a rousing celebration of the human spirit, love of the sport, and pride of country.The writing-directing team of Angelo Pizzo and David Anspaugh tries to do for soccer what their films Hoosiers and Rudy did for, respectively, basketball and football. Here's another true story, a legendary upset in the early days of the World Cup. In 1950, America hastily forms a team to play against the world. We center on a tight Italian community in St. Louis providing the bulk of the national team. We meet GQ-ready stars led by goalie Frank Borgi (The Phantom of the Opera's Gerald Butler, deftly handling the duties). This brotherhood of players is unfortunately strapped to play off clichés and the movie never really engages us beyond the autumn-tinged scenery. A big part of the blame goes to the narrator telling us what we should be feeling (perhaps because we dumb Americans don't know soccer, er, football, like the rest of the world). No fault in the performance of the narrator/journalist (played by Patrick Stewart as the elder, Terry Kinney as the younger) or the rest of the cast. Perhaps the game is elusive to cinematic grandeur, (how many memorable soccer movies can you name?), but the movie is also tired and slow, something those earlier sports films were not. There's only a brief stirring when the earnest Gino (Louis Mandylor) has a wedding-date conflict and as the most famous English player of the day, Stanley Mortenson (Gavin Rossdale), patronizes the Americans in a public speech. Perhaps the studio knew they had a cellar dweller; the film was barely released and retitled for home video echoing the moniker of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Soccer kids will enjoy the film, but others better stick to Geoffrey Douglas's book, The Game of Their Lives, the film's original title (and mistakenly left on the end credits). --Doug Thomas
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