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We Are Marshall

  • 20062006
  • PGPG
  • 2h 11m
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Matthew McConaughey in We Are Marshall (2006)
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When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program ... Read allWhen a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
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    • McG
    • Jamie Linden(screenplay)
    • Cory Helms(story)
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    • Matthew McConaughey
    • Matthew Fox
    • Anthony Mackie
    • McG
    • Jamie Linden(screenplay)
    • Cory Helms(story)
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    • Matthew McConaughey
    • Matthew Fox
    • Anthony Mackie
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    • 53Metascore
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    Matthew McConaughey
    Matthew McConaughey
    • Jack Lengyel
    Matthew Fox
    Matthew Fox
    • Red Dawson
    Anthony Mackie
    Anthony Mackie
    • Nate Ruffin
    David Strathairn
    David Strathairn
    • President Dedmon
    Ian McShane
    Ian McShane
    • Paul Griffen
    Kate Mara
    Kate Mara
    • Annie Cantrell
    January Jones
    January Jones
    • Carole Dawson
    Kimberly Williams-Paisley
    Kimberly Williams-Paisley
    • Sandy Lengyel
    Arlen Escarpeta
    Arlen Escarpeta
    • Reggie Oliver
    Brian Geraghty
    Brian Geraghty
    • Tom Bogdan
    Tommy Cresswell
    Tommy Cresswell
    • Gene Morehouse
    Christian Kanupke
    • Young Keith Morehouse
    Nina Jones
    Nina Jones
    • Mrs. Morehouse
    Kevin Atkins
    • George Olson
    Mark Patton
    • Bill James
    Huntley Ritter
    Huntley Ritter
    • Randy Linden
    Brett Rice
    Brett Rice
    • Lloyd Boone
    Dalton Polston
    • Peter Lengyel
      • McG
      • Jamie Linden(screenplay) (story)
      • Cory Helms(story)
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    • Trivia
      Southern Airways Flight 932 was a chartered DC-9, from Kinston, NC (ISO) to Huntington-Tri-State/Milton Airport (HTS) in Ceredo, West Virginia. The plane was carrying 37 team members, eight members of the coaching staff, 25 boosters, four flight crew, and one charter company employee. On November 14, 1970, at 7:35 PM, the plane crashed into a hill just short of Tri-State Airport, killing all 75 on board. Because it was the team's only chartered flight of the season, many prominent citizens were on board, including a city councilman, a state legislator, and four of the city's six physicians. Seventy children lost one parent in the crash; an additional 18 were orphaned.
    • Goofs
      In spring 1971, Jack Lengyel and Red Dawson approach WVU football coach Bobby Bowden for use of his "veer" formation. Dawson says the two schools "are rivals." Bowden agrees to help, saying "We don't play y'all this year." WVU and Marshall are basketball rivals; they hadn't played each other in football since 1923, and didn't again until 1997.
    • Quotes

      Jack Lengyel: For those of you who may not know, this is the final resting place for six members of the 1970 Thundering Herd. The plane crash that took their lives was so severe, so absolute, that their bodies were unable to be identified. So they were buried here. Together. Six players. Six teammates. Six Sons of Marshall. This is our past, gentlemen. This is where we have been. This is how we got here. This is who we are. Today, I want to talk about our opponent this afternoon. They're bigger, faster, stronger, more experienced and on paper, they're just better. And they know it too. But I want to tell you something that they don't know. They don't know your heart. I do. I've seen it. You have shown it to me. You have shown this coaching staff, your teammates. You have shown yourselves just exactly who you are in here.

      [Thumps his chest]

      Jack Lengyel: When you take that field today, you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the souls of your feet, with every ounce of blood you've got in your body, lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you do that, if you do that, we cannot lose. We may be behind on the scoreboard at the end of the game but if you play like that we cannot be defeated. Now we came here today to remember six young men and sixty-nine others who will not be on the field with you today, but they will be watching. You can bet your ass that they'll be gritting their teeth with every snap of that football. You understand me? How you play today, from this moment on is how you will be remembered. This is your opportunity to rise from these ashes and grab glory. We are...

      Young Thundering Herd: Marshall!

      Jack Lengyel: We are.

      Young Thundering Herd: Marshall!

      Jack Lengyel: We are!

      Young Thundering Herd: Marshall!

      Jack Lengyel: The funerals end today!

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    • Connections
      Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Michael Jackson's This Is It/The House of the Devil/Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Sons of Marshall
      Performed by The Marshall University Marching Thunder

      Courtesy of Marshall University

    User reviews198

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    We Are Marshall
    My family and I saw We Are Marshall Christmas night. I grew up in a Marshall family (Mom & Dad, M.U. grads; my oldest sister was in school at M.U. at the time of the plane crash, as well as her future husband). Dad worked in the newspaper business at the time; and my mom's father passed away the night of the crash (while we were glued to radio and T.V. reports from Huntington.)

    A year later, I was fortunate enough to see the Xavier game portrayed in the film at Fairfield Stadium in person. It is still the single most heart-stirring moment in sports I've ever been around.

    Attending Marshall myself just a few short years after the tragedy, we cheered for first downs by the Thundering Herd and agonized through fighting to be just competitive. Not all were mindful of the journey.

    The film seems to capture the shock of the crash on the school and the community and the hopelessness both experienced in the times immediately following the crash. Due to time restrictions and to keep the story moving, the struggle to come up with representative football players was kind of oversimplified in the film, but the men who did play in those years are just as important as the heroes of the winning era at Marshall decades later. Not sure if the real Jack Lengyel was as tongue in cheek as portrayed in the movie, but it seems to work.

    I think the movie will grow on people across the country not familiar with the story or who had no ties to Marshall/Huntington, in the vein of Hoosiers or Remember The Titans. My wife and sons have heard about it for years...that's why we wanted to experience the movie together.

    The most incredible sports story I'll ever witness. I thought about the 75 when Marshall played in Detroit in the Motor City Bowl in 1999 and finished in the top 10 in the country. I think about them every time I visit the Marshall Student Center and see the 1970 team picture on the wall. I knew their names from the newspaper stories and the radio coverage of the era. It is quite a personal memory for me, and one I know I share with thousands, and now, many, many more.
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    • Marshall played Xavier University in 1971. Did Xavier have a football team then?

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      • December 22, 2006 (United States)
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      • Legendary Entertainment
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