Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543008088 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 05, 2002 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1983 Sales Rank: 65698
Description: The only way football star Stefan Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) will avoid a life in the blast furnaces of his bleak Pennsylvania hometown is by winning a college scholarship. Even his coach (Craig T. Nelson) dreams of parlaying a winning team into a college job far away from this graveyard of the American Dream. But it's not long before the two virtually ruin each other's chances for escape and their door to the future starts to close. Lea Thompson and Christopher Penn co-star.
Amazon.com: Most films about high school football players usually fall into one of two categories: glossy jock romance or locker-room sex farce. This one defies the odds and scores both as decent character study and decidedly unsentimental sports melodrama. It's not only a helluva coming-of-age yarn, but also, like Paul Newman's Slapshot, it's a bracing look at the hopes and dreams of blue-collar survivors. Tom Cruise plays a mill-town football star determined to escape the same traps that ensnared his parents. Craig T. Nelson, in a terrific villain role, is the coach who takes revenge when Cruise's ambitions drift a little too close to home. Michael Chapman, Martin Scorsese's favorite cinematographer, made his directorial debut with this gritty little winner, which benefits from being shot on location in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and which is set to a great Jennifer Warnes-Chris Thompson theme song. Lea Thompson and Christopher Penn co-star. In 1983, another Cruise vehicle had even better moves: Risky Business. --Glenn Lovell
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Rating: - There once was a crooked man on a crooked path
Now approaching mid-life, this is one of the films that I grew up with. This film was especially touching for me due to the fact that about the time this film came out, I was heading off to college. In ... Read More
Rating: - entertaining but conflict is resolved too easily
This is a fairly formulaic film with a synthesizer-based soundtrack, quite common in the 1980s. It's entertaining enough, with a small-town guy trying to find a way out of the stifling environment and ... Read More
Rating: - I thought it enjoyable fluff in the day
But now somehow just the sight of Cruise's face makes me jump to change the channel. The magic of acting is shot when you know the actor is someone like him (ain't he never had the magic to start ... Read More
Rating: - All The Right Moves DVD
I bought this DVD for my husband for Christmas, He loves it and watches it frequently. Great price.
Rating: - escaping the small town blues
I think many of us can relate to feeling trapped by our geography and those around us, and the need to rise above it all. But what really makes this movie shine is the acting, including the tough coach, Bosco ... Read More
- There once was a crooked man on a crooked path
- I thought it enjoyable fluff in the day
- All The Right Moves DVD