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Director:
Mike Robe
Writers (WGA):
Jim Dent (book)
Mike Robe (teleplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
14 December 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Sport more
Plot:
Story of Bear Bryant's first summer as head football coach at Texas A&M. Bear takes his charges out onto the scorched plains and sees who survives. | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 nominations more
User Comments:
Berenger excels in a mediocre film more (23 total)

Cast

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Tom Berenger ... Paul 'Bear' Bryant
Fletcher Humphrys ... Skeet Keeler

Ryan Kwanten ... Claude Gearheart
Bernard Curry ... Johnny Haynes

Nick Tate ... Smokey Harper

Luke Ford ... Perch
Josef Ber ... Pine

Ryan Johnson ... Mike Hess
Warwick Sadler ... Welch
Mark Lee ... Gilmore
Andy Anderson ... Betch
Ewen Leslie ... Luke Mason
Matt Edgerton ... Jimmy Nubbs (as Matthew Edgerton)
David Webb ... Dr. Wiedeman
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Bianca Biasi ... Nurse

Saskia Burmeister ... Joyce
Sandy Gardiner ... Reunion Wife
Peter Hansen ... Reunion Survivor #1
Michael Ienna ... Wide Reciever

Christine McClure ... Helen
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
Brazil:93 min | Portugal:89 min (TV version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
St Marys, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia more
Company:
ESPN Original Entertainment more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Gene Stallings, a Junction Boy who later went on to coach at Texas A&M, in the NFL with with the St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals and then at Alabama, disputed the way both "The Junction Boys" book and movie portrayed Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. In a September 2006 interview with Tuscaloosa Magazine, Stallings had this to say: "Junction, Texas, was tough, but I didn't like the way the book...and movie portrayed Coach Bryant. He wasn't brutal; he was tough. That's a big difference. He wanted to bring us together, away from distractions, unite the team." more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: A sign reads "Texas A&M University". Texas A&M did not become a "university" until 1962. In the 1950s, it was called "Texas A&M College." more
Quotes:
Bear Bryant: [after Skeet has been injured] Ahhh, what now? more

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Berenger excels in a mediocre film, 16 March 2006
5/10
Author: Bjorn (jbjorns) from Iceland

If you're a fan of Tom Berenger you might like this film somewhat. He's one of my favorites but still I didn't find much enjoyment out of this true tale of legendary Football coach "Bear" Bryant.

Berenger's performance was very good, I thought, having read that the actual "Bear" was a really tough S.O.B. in real life. Everything else here is mostly mediocre. The film depicts well the hell these boys went through under his leadership but somehow none of this affects the viewer in any way. It could easily have been longer and fleshed out more characters, this is pretty shallow stuff.

As said above, Berenger does a good job at displaying the character's motivations for his cruel and unusual training method. Like in Rough Riders where Berenger basically became Teddy Roosevelt, here he seems to quite simply BE Paul "Bear" Bryant. Really good actor.

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