The Replacements
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Actor: Gene Hackman, Greg Goossen, Jon Favreau, Keanu Reeves, Keith DavidBrand: Team Marketing
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Cinematographer: Bud Smith
Cinematographer: Mike Thomas
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-28
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Replacements
Movie Review: I'm just another duck on the pond
Summary: 5 Stars
Although the story may be a threepeat (pun intended) this movie is for anyone who loves football, loves rootin for the underdog and hates that Professional Sports have been Shanghaied by Egotistical `fullovthemselves' who only think about the money. Hackman is great as Coach McGinty and Reeves is quite believable as the unsure of himself "never was" Shane Falco. Whether due to the writing or the director we're presented with a bunch of guys who had a shot at the brass ring, missed their chance and have just one more shot for a little bit of glory. They start out disliking or not knowing each other and eventually `gel' as a team. The fight in the bar is hysterical and the dance number in the jail afterwards is a must see, not to mention Shane Falco's parking problems. There are a lot of standouts in this film: Orlando Jones, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Evan Parke as the preacher, Rhys Ifans as the "Wirary" Welshman and the egg vomiting Sumo Ace Yonamine (you gotta love this huddle scene). There are quite a few others, just too many great moments to mention them all.
Even the ladies will enjoy this with the chemistry between Reeves and Langdon (a definite hottie). Starting out with stolen glances, then hitching rides, and eventually Shane and Abigail start heading to something called love, the culmination of which is just as enjoyable for the guys as Pat Summerall and John Madden do the play by play! Don't miss the cheerleader tryouts! Smear their blood all over town!
Summary of The Replacements
A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players' strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the "scab" who replaces the star QB.The Replacements manages to be both completely formulaic and yet immensely enjoyable. When a professional football players' strike happens, the owner of a fictitious team, the Washington Sentinels, commissions maverick coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to pull together a team. McGinty selects a collection of talented oddballs--a Welsh soccer player, a sumo wrestler, a couple of professional bodyguards--with athletic pasts, figuring that if it doesn't work out as a game, it might as well be a circus. To lead the team, he finds Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a once-promising player who had a disastrous championship game. Naturally, despite squabbling and bickering, a roguish camaraderie develops through a mixture of racial infighting, harassment from the striking professionals, and a big bar brawl--after which they're all thrown in jail and perform the most improbable impromptu dance number ever committed to film. The mixture of cheerfully clich? plot mechanics, an engaging collection of supporting actors (including Orlando Jones, Rhys Ifans from Notting Hill, and Jon Favreau from Swingers), and sheer ridiculousness somehow combines to make The Replacements completely entertaining. Reeves is somehow turning into a pleasant leading man; he even emotes convincingly in this movie. And let's face it, Gene Hackman is quite possibly the greatest actor alive, able to speak the trashiest dialogue with fierce conviction. Plus, just to prove that the tight pants and close huddles of football are heterosexual, there are many, many shots of cheerleaders going through stripper-inspired routines. --Bret Fetzer
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