Passes the time well, but you have seen it all before.

Rating: 7/10 (19 November 2001)

A rousing High School football movie, well done, supposedly bases on a true story, with all the clichés, including an injured player watching the "big game" from his hospital bed. Cross that with a end-of-segregation era race-relations formula. It's great that Disney is pro-equality of blacks and whites, but Disney's support was needed back in 1970, not NOW, in this rehashed mishmash. Given all the clichés, the movie presses the right buttons, the actors all do well, and the time passes quite nicely. If you already have the movie in your possession, go ahead and watch it, it should satisfy, but don't go out of your way to see this - you have seen it all before, and your time can be better spent. Unless you are a bigot or a serious high school football fan, then you should definitely see it.