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We Are Marshall [Blu-ray]

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Actor: David Strathairn, Matthew Fox, Matthew McConaughey
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Brothers

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Movie Review: Not enough football - too much melancholy
Summary: 3 Stars

"We are Marshall" is the true story of the rebuilding of the Marshall football team after the tragic 1970 plane crash that killed most of the team. Matthew McConaughey stars as the gutsy coach who takes the position and Jack from Lost costars as his assistant coach.

On the outset, this looks like a great movie - true story about college football - it looks like Remember the Titans all over again. However, the big difference here is that a central part of the story revolves around the town and team dealing with the death of the team and playing in their shadow. Thus, the focus of the movie is not really football like you might have hoped for, but rather death and moving on. It was actually kind of depressing.

The end did have some decent football, but it was too little and far too slow in coming. There was also a fun scene involving a young Bobby Bowden, but his role is limited. Overall, I would not recommend this movie.

Side Note: The movie is directed by someone who just refers to himself as "McG". That should have been a warning sign to me.

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Based on true events,"We Are Marshall" tells the inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home from a hard-fought game in North Carolina. Less than a minute before its scheduled landing at Tri-State Airport, the plane crashed in the Appalachian Mountains, killing everyone aboard: 37 players, eight coaches and university staff, the flight crew, and 25 prominent Huntington citizens who had made the trip as they always did tocheer their "Thundering Herd." In the aftermath of this stunning tragedy, university president Dedmon (David Strathairn) prepared to suspend the school's football program for the season--perhaps indefinitely. Assistant coach Red Dawson (Matthew Fox), who narrowly missed the ill-fated flight, couldn't face going back onto the field. But in Huntington, Marshall football has always been more than a sport: it's a way of life. And this town would rally to save it. After some initial setbacks, they found hope and strength in the leadership of outsider Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey), a young coach determined to rebuild Marshall's football program and, in the process, help to heal the community. Less than a year later, on September 18, 1971, Marshall University's brand new Thundering Herd waspoised to stage one of the greatest comebacks in collegiate sports. A raw, youthful and inexperienced squad, patched together under the guidance of Lengyel and Dawson, they would defy overwhelming odds just to march onto the gridiron for the school's first game since the accident.

There seems to be no end to beating-the-odds football movies these days, and if they all peak with a breathless moment of anticipation during a clutch play, then We Are Marshall, based on a true story, has plenty of (mostly good) company. Matthew McConaughey plays Jack Lengyel, who becomes head coach--more or less by default--of Marshall University's rebuilding varsity football team in Huntington, W. Va., after the school's 37-member team and coaches (and a number of others) die in a plane crash in the Appalachian Mountains on Nov. 14, 1970. Facing an indifferent college president (David Strathairn) ready to shut the football program down, a morose assistant coach (Matthew Fox), and a charged-up player (Anthony Mackie) who missed the doomed flight due to an injury, Lengyel is faced with fielding a new team and putting the players through their paces. There are the usual, perhaps too-familiar, training montages and field action, but screenwriter Jamie Linden and director McG (Charlie's Angels) also draw some very good peformances from the likes of Kate Mara and Ian McShane, contributing to an emotional tapestry conveying a powerful sense of how such a sizable loss affects a small community. --Tom Keogh

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