The Junction Boys (2002) (TV)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Mike Robe

Writers (WGA):

Jim Dent (book)
Mike Robe (teleplay)

Release Date:

14 December 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sport

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. |

Plot Keywords:

American Football | Broken Nose | Based On True Story

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bianca Biasi	...	Nurse
Saskia Burmeister	...	Joyce
Sandy Gardiner	...	Reunion Wife
Peter Hansen	...	Reunion Survivor #1
Michael Ienna	...	Wide Reciever
Christine McClure	...	Helen

Runtime:

Brazil:93 min | Portugal:89 min (TV version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

St Marys, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

ESPN Original Entertainment

Trivia:

With the movie being filmed in Australia, virtually all of the young men playing prospective Aggie football players were Australian. Therefore, all of the Texas accents - as convincing as they might've been - were indeed fake.

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."

Quotes:

Bear Bryant: I didn't work my pecker raw at Maryland and Kentucky to sit up and die at this miserable cow college!

Well-done tale of early Bear

Tom Berenger does a nice, understated turn as a young Bear Bryant trimming the deadwood from his first Texas A&M squad. Bear's method - take the team to Junction, Texas, work the team to death and see who's left. I suspect the story's been somewhat "Hollywoodized". Just the same, it presents a fair picture of the positives and negatives of driving a team to the edge. Worth a view.