In November 1970, the entire football team was on board a plane, but they all died in the crash, including instructors from Marshall University. After the fatal accident, Nate Ruffin - a player who was sick and absent from that deadly journey - met with other students at the university to persuade the board of governors to play in the 1971 season again with new players. The head of the college without Dedeman, must find a coach to collect players. They submitted a petition to the National Association for Student Safety to allow new players to play. Coach Jacques Lengiel was chosen to lead the young players and train them to win the championship.
This was undeniably a horrific event for the victims' families friends, colleagues as well as for the entire community. But the movie seems to almost exploit this tragedy so it can make audiences weep, and ultimately, cheer.
We Are Marshall is not a bad movie; it is a potentially nice, familiar movie unfortunately marred by the unspeakably awful performance of Matthew McConaughey.
A series of montage and anecdotal vignettes follows as they recruit a whole new team, learn lessons from the catastrophe, lose and then win, with plenty of sentimentality sprinkled over the whole thing.
What allows We Are Marshall to stand above many of the other 2006 sports movies is both the undeniable power of the story itself and the strong ensemble McG gathered to tell it.
Reel Film Reviews
November 20, 2007
...would've benefited from the presence of virtually any other actor in the central role...
Unlike a lot of sports movies, it doesn't end with a championship or a great upset over a powerhouse. The real victory on the Marshall campus was in fielding a team that honored and respected the legacy of the 1970 team.
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2017
IMDb: 7
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
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