Take Tissues!

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2014)

I did a high-school sort of chick-flick marathon; watching movies like "Mean Girls" and "Grease", when I ran out of cliché movies on girls with trouble at school. I started searching the web for other movies with "high school" as an important theme and crossed paths with this movie.
I read the summary and thought that it wasn't going to be a movie I liked, nor a movie that would fit my high-school marathon. But hell, I watched it anyways.
And loved it! It is not a regular sports movie, nor anything like the high-school movies I was watching. It was rough, exciting and most importantly very real. The recognition with the characters and their problems, as well as the fact that it is a autobiographical work, made it an incredibly touching movie.
It's the story of a Texan Amercian football team that is fighting to become state champion, not only on the field, as well as with themselves. It just doesn't all go as easy and smooth as planned.
Don't expect anything feel-good, or warm and cozy for your sweet little soul. I cried my heart out for over an hour of the complete movie. The last time I cried that bad with a movie was with "The Bridge to Terabithia" (also wonderful, very different from this one).
I surely recommend everyone to watch this. Just take a box of tissues.