excellent

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2018)

This movie ranks with When the Game Stands Tall as true football movies about teams who have to face adversity-and did so well. It also ranks with that and Invincible as good football movies as well-made movies. It deals with the 1970 plane crash that killed the Marshall football team, its coaches, and boosters, and the team had to rebuild. The movie focuses not just on the games but on the human aspects of the tragedy and the university and how the new coach how to handle it. Everything, including the cast and performances, was first rate. It wasn't just a sports movie. It was a life movie and how to bounce back from tragedy-and it was all real!
*** out of ****