When The Game Stands Tall, based on the non-fiction book by Neil Hayes, tells the story of the De La Salle High School football team and their record-setting winning streak of 151 games. Their coach, Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), aims to teach his players more about life than just winning football games, and he’s aided throughout by his assistant coach Terry Eidson (Michael Chiklis).
The movie begins at the height of the team’s winning streak and its soul crushing end, and we watch as the players slowly rebuild their shattered confidence. But for Bob, he is forced to deal with his own mortality when he suffers a heart attack, which puts his coaching career and the team’s sterling reputation in jeopardy.
The press day for When The Game Stands Tall recently took place in Los Angeles and while there, we got to talk not only with Jim Caviezel and Michael Chiklis,...
The movie begins at the height of the team’s winning streak and its soul crushing end, and we watch as the players slowly rebuild their shattered confidence. But for Bob, he is forced to deal with his own mortality when he suffers a heart attack, which puts his coaching career and the team’s sterling reputation in jeopardy.
The press day for When The Game Stands Tall recently took place in Los Angeles and while there, we got to talk not only with Jim Caviezel and Michael Chiklis,...
- 8/22/2014
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
According to inspirational sports movies, winning demands you train hard, play with heart, be a team, and not care about winning. So it goes in the sturdy, crowd-pleasing When the Game Stands Tall, a profile in saintliness puffed up from a true story: the Northern California Catholic school whose football team enjoyed a 151-game winning streak in the early 2000s. Of course, one of the lessons that coach Bob Ladouceur (a stoic Jim Caviezel) teaches on-screen is that winning isn’t everything, an assertion that’s true in real life and even moving in Neil Hayes’s book about Ladouceur but seems ridiculous in a movie that only exists because those De La Salle High School teams won so often. Here, where each football scene is juiced with Hollywood music and stunt work,...
- 8/21/2014
- Village Voice
When the Game Stands Tall is a movie based on real life story about a high school football team's continuous streak of 151 games won. However, Coach Bob Ladouceur and Assistant Coach Terry Eidson never focused on the streak. Instead, they trained the De La Salle Spartans to become fine young men of character.
Author Neil Hayes wrote the book from which the movie is based on. He followed the team to practice nearly every day for a year. The Spartans' streak is the national record for number of games won in a row in any sport, professional or amateur, but according to Hayes, their victories are understated in the community. It's the school's choice not to display their winning records.
"A couple of years ago, one of the player's father who was a carpenter wanted to build a trophy case," says Hayes. "The player said, 'No, it's not what you put on the shelf,...
Author Neil Hayes wrote the book from which the movie is based on. He followed the team to practice nearly every day for a year. The Spartans' streak is the national record for number of games won in a row in any sport, professional or amateur, but according to Hayes, their victories are understated in the community. It's the school's choice not to display their winning records.
"A couple of years ago, one of the player's father who was a carpenter wanted to build a trophy case," says Hayes. "The player said, 'No, it's not what you put on the shelf,...
- 8/20/2014
- by cassandrahsiao@hotmail.com (Star Reporter Cassandra)
- kidspickflicks
When the Game Stands Tall is a movie based on real life story about a high school football team's continuous streak of 151 games won. However, Coach Bob Ladouceur and Assistant Coach Terry Eidson never focused on the streak. Instead, they trained the De La Salle Spartans to become fine young men of character.
Author Neil Hayes wrote the book from which the movie is based on. He followed the team to practice nearly every day for a year. The Spartans' streak is the national record for number of games won in a row in any sport, professional or amateur, but according to Hayes, their victories are understated in the community. It's the school's choice not to display their winning records.
"A couple of years ago, one of the player's father who was a carpenter wanted to build a trophy case," says Hayes. "The player said, 'No, it's not what you put on the shelf,...
Author Neil Hayes wrote the book from which the movie is based on. He followed the team to practice nearly every day for a year. The Spartans' streak is the national record for number of games won in a row in any sport, professional or amateur, but according to Hayes, their victories are understated in the community. It's the school's choice not to display their winning records.
"A couple of years ago, one of the player's father who was a carpenter wanted to build a trophy case," says Hayes. "The player said, 'No, it's not what you put on the shelf,...
- 8/20/2014
- by cassandrahsiao@hotmail.com (Cassandra)
- kidspickflicks
When the Game Stands Tall is a movie based on real life story about a high school football team's continuous streak of 151 games won. However, Coach Bob Ladouceur and Assistant Coach Terry Eidson never focused on the streak. Instead, they trained the De La Salle Spartans to become fine young men of character.
Author Neil Hayes wrote the book from which the movie is based on. He followed the team to practice nearly every day for a year. The Spartans' streak is the national record for number of games won in a row in any sport, professional or amateur, but according to Hayes, their victories are understated in the community. It's the school's choice not to display their winning records.
"A couple of years ago, one of the player's father who was a carpenter wanted to build a trophy case," says Hayes. "The player said, 'No, it's not what you put on the shelf,...
Author Neil Hayes wrote the book from which the movie is based on. He followed the team to practice nearly every day for a year. The Spartans' streak is the national record for number of games won in a row in any sport, professional or amateur, but according to Hayes, their victories are understated in the community. It's the school's choice not to display their winning records.
"A couple of years ago, one of the player's father who was a carpenter wanted to build a trophy case," says Hayes. "The player said, 'No, it's not what you put on the shelf,...
- 8/20/2014
- by cassandrahsiao@hotmail.com (Cassandra)
- kidspickflicks
While America’s favorite annual pastime, baseball, is just beginning the 2014 season, the studios are making sure the game of football is not far from the minds of moviegoers.
The NFL based movie Draft Day opens this weekend in theaters and when the Friday Night Lights of High School football ramps up in the dog days of Summer, Sony Pictures will be releasing the new sports drama When The Game Stands Tall on August 22nd.
Inspired by a true story, When The Game Stands Tall tells the remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
From the director of Coach Carter, Thomas Carter’s film also features Michael Chiklis, Alexander Ludwig, Clancy Brown, and Laura Dern.
Written by Scott Marshall Smith and David Zelon,...
The NFL based movie Draft Day opens this weekend in theaters and when the Friday Night Lights of High School football ramps up in the dog days of Summer, Sony Pictures will be releasing the new sports drama When The Game Stands Tall on August 22nd.
Inspired by a true story, When The Game Stands Tall tells the remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
From the director of Coach Carter, Thomas Carter’s film also features Michael Chiklis, Alexander Ludwig, Clancy Brown, and Laura Dern.
Written by Scott Marshall Smith and David Zelon,...
- 4/11/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Whatever happens when Tim Tebow arrives at the training camp of his new NFL team, the New England Patriots, he's going to have a couple of Boston-area-bred actors in his camp.
Via his Twitter account on June 10, Dorchester, Mass., native Donnie Wahlberg writes, "Tim Tebow to the @patriots is awesome! A real coach & Qb, like Belichick & Brady, know the one way to make Tebow a weapon ... #ThePatriotWay!"
Wahlberg isn't alone in his enthusiasm.
Born in Lowell, Mass., Michael Chiklis -- seen last season on the CBS series "Vegas" -- is a dedicated sports fan, especially of baseball's Boston Red Sox and, of course, pro football's Patriots.
Contacted by Zap2it via Facebook, Chiklis -- who calls Patriots Qb Tom Brady a "friend" -- says he's very excited at the Tebow news.
He tells us, "Coach [Bill] Belichick is a genius at picking up largely overlooked and underestimated players and plugging them...
Via his Twitter account on June 10, Dorchester, Mass., native Donnie Wahlberg writes, "Tim Tebow to the @patriots is awesome! A real coach & Qb, like Belichick & Brady, know the one way to make Tebow a weapon ... #ThePatriotWay!"
Wahlberg isn't alone in his enthusiasm.
Born in Lowell, Mass., Michael Chiklis -- seen last season on the CBS series "Vegas" -- is a dedicated sports fan, especially of baseball's Boston Red Sox and, of course, pro football's Patriots.
Contacted by Zap2it via Facebook, Chiklis -- who calls Patriots Qb Tom Brady a "friend" -- says he's very excited at the Tebow news.
He tells us, "Coach [Bill] Belichick is a genius at picking up largely overlooked and underestimated players and plugging them...
- 6/11/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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