Gridiron Gang PG
One goal. A second chance.
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Gridiron Gang (2006)
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Xzibit, Leon Rippy & Kevin Dunn | |
Performer: | Vanessa Ferlito, L. Scott Caldwell, Brandon Smith, David Thomas, Jade Yorker, Setu Taase & Jamal Mixon | |
Directed by | Phil Joanou | |
Edited by | Joel Negron | |
Screenwriting by | Jeff Maguire | |
Composition by | Trevor Rabin | |
Produced by | Neal H. Moritz & Lee Stanley | |
Director of Photography: | Jeff Cutter | |
Executive Production by | Shane Stanley, Michael Rachmil, Ryan Kavanaugh & Lynwood Spinks |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C- --
Dwayne Johnson pushes his emotionally charged performance so hard that you think he might pop a blood vessel.
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 2/5 --
Watchable, decently made drama with some strong performances, but the script is disappointing given the real-life story behind the film.
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ViewLondon
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Gridiron entertains and makes a powerful point about the faults inherent in the penal system, particularly for youths with hopes of rehabilitation.
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USA Today
GRIDIRON GANG gains significant momentum from Jeff Cutter's amped-up photography, most notably on the gridiron itself.
New York Times
[The Rock's] committed performance is mostly external....But there is also introspection...
Sight and Sound
Rating: B --
Gridiron Gang probably isn't a film that will appeal to non-sports fans, but it's just good enough to give football fans something to do before the next kickoff.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Well intentioned, but way too corny, way too over the top...
Ebert & Roeper
Product Description:
In 1990, coaches Sean Porter and Malcolm Moore took the Kilpatrick Mustangs--a football team of hard-core juvenile offenders from California's Camp Kilpatrick juvenile detention center--through their inaugural season, in which they reached the regional championships. In 1993, an Emmy-winning documentary, GRIDIRON GANG, aired on U.S. television. In this fictionalized version of the same name, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as Porter, the coach who uses sports as a means to instill self-esteem into a group or boys for whom crime is a way of life.
A former troubled youth who used football as a means to stay off of the streets, Porter, along with Malcolm Moore (Xibit) now presides over Camp Kilpatrick, where the inmates are gang members, murderers, and drug dealers. Among them are Willie Weathers (Jade York), a gang member doing time for a botched act of revenge. Showing that old rivalries hold true even away from the streets, fellow inmate and rival gang member Calvin Owens (David Thomas) won't let Willie forget that they are sworn enemies. But once Porter introduces football as an outlet, the common goal of winning unites them in ways that no one expected. Sports films are not known for harboring O-Henry-like twists at their conclusions, and GRIDIRON GANG is no exception, but director Phil Joanou (STATE OF GRACE) keeps the proceedings gritty (especially for a PG-13 rating), giving us not only the uplifting and exciting football sequences, but also a handful of heart-pounding--and somewhat graphic--scenes of gang violence, and former Yes member Trevor Rabin's effective score is a nice alternative to the typical pop soundtrack. Not all sweetness and light, GRIDIRON GANG is fine addition to the realm of cinematic sports, leavening the sap with a copious counter-dose of realism.
A former troubled youth who used football as a means to stay off of the streets, Porter, along with Malcolm Moore (Xibit) now presides over Camp Kilpatrick, where the inmates are gang members, murderers, and drug dealers. Among them are Willie Weathers (Jade York), a gang member doing time for a botched act of revenge. Showing that old rivalries hold true even away from the streets, fellow inmate and rival gang member Calvin Owens (David Thomas) won't let Willie forget that they are sworn enemies. But once Porter introduces football as an outlet, the common goal of winning unites them in ways that no one expected. Sports films are not known for harboring O-Henry-like twists at their conclusions, and GRIDIRON GANG is no exception, but director Phil Joanou (STATE OF GRACE) keeps the proceedings gritty (especially for a PG-13 rating), giving us not only the uplifting and exciting football sequences, but also a handful of heart-pounding--and somewhat graphic--scenes of gang violence, and former Yes member Trevor Rabin's effective score is a nice alternative to the typical pop soundtrack. Not all sweetness and light, GRIDIRON GANG is fine addition to the realm of cinematic sports, leavening the sap with a copious counter-dose of realism.