Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Mac Davis | ... | Wilbur 'Will' Clark | |
Cynthia Sikes | ... | Elizabeth Clark | |
Greg Coolidge | ... | Jake Malloy (as Gregory Coolidge) | |
Andrew Prine | ... | Mayor Charlie Lawton | |
Dennis Burkley | ... | Orville Moss | |
Monica Lacy | ... | Sarah Jacobs (as Monica Creel) | |
Jay Underwood | ... | John Clark | |
Jerry Haynes | ... | Bob | |
Clive Revill | ... | London | |
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Zac Sherman | ... | Mark Bond |
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Nathan Burgess | ... | Calvin (as Nathan Brooks Burgess) |
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Kyle Moody | ... | Kevin Burns |
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Ian Bennett | ... | Paul Rowlett |
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David Hunt Stafford | ... | Coach Tuley |
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Rodney Lay | ... | Earl |
Will Clark loves his job as radio announcer for the local high school football team, the Nowata Possums. He loves it so much that he continues announcing even after the town decides to cancel the football program. But when his imaginary teams starts to contend for the state championship, he not only must deal with the real state champs, but he must reckon with the hopes and dreams of the people of Nowata as well. Written by bob the moo
Now here's a true sleeper. Produced by HSX Films (aren't they the fake stock exchange folks?) and hidden on the back shelves of Blockbuster (except in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the nearest big town to Nowata), this turns out to be a charming and disarming tale of the morale of a city unlike anything we've seen since... well, I don't think I've seen anything like it.
True, Nowata's football team in the movie hasn't scored a touchdown in thirteen years, but hope lives in a few of the townsfolk. Hope does not live in the mayor, though, who rallies to have the football team disbanded and the field replaced by a mega-department store. However, in the puritan heart of one man, the announcer for the team, the spirit of the game will not die. Even once the team is laid to rest, he buys radio air time and announces fictitious games. Only this time, the team is a winner.
It is this aspect of the film - that you are what you believe you are - that endears itself to you. True, the dialogue is stilted, the direction is standard, and the acting is hokey, but you can't help but cheer for a bunch of losers who now have an opportunity to prove that they are winners in spirit.