Top billed cast

1. 

   Luke Wilson

   Rusty Russell

2. 

   Vinessa Shaw

   Juanita Russell

3. 

   Wayne Knight

   Frank Wynn

4. 

   Martin Sheen

   Doc Hall

5. 

   Jake Austin Walker

   Hardy Brown

6. 

   Scott Haze

   Rodney Kidd

7. 

   Levi Dylan

   Fairbanks

8. 

   Jacob Lofland

   Snoggs

9. 

   Rooster McConaughey

   Pop Boone

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-01-24

Luke Wilson is quite effective here as a football coach (Rusty) who, with his teacher wife (Juanita) and his daughter arrive at a run down orphanage, home to 150 children of all ages abandoned by their parents in the midst of the Great Depression. Pretty quickly, they get the general idea that those in the establishment are considered more like the inmates of a prison, and those running it are at best indifferent, at worst ruthlessly exploitative of their charges. Rusty sets out to try and galvanise the disparate young men into some sort of cohesive unit. Initially, they are sullen, demotivate...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$3,615,193.00

Keywords

• underdog
• based on novel or book
• sports
• war veteran
• american football
• orphanage
• american football coach
• great depression
• based on true story
• flashback
• orphan
• child labor
• inspiring story
• dust bowl
• aftercreditsstinger
• 1940s
• 1930s
• group home