A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Russell Harvard | ... | Matt Hamill | |
| Raymond J. Barry | ... | Stanley Leroy McCoy | |
| Shoshannah Stern | ... | Kristi Jones | |
| Michael Anthony Spady | ... | Jay Jakubowski | |
| Courtney Halverson | ... | Michelle | |
| Susan Gibney | ... | Janet Hamill | |
| Joseph McKelheer | ... | Ron Gross | |
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Eben Kostbar | ... | Coach Cantrell |
| Rich Franklin | ... | Coach Pruitt | |
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Stephen Dodd | ... | Coach Rich |
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Gavin Bellour | ... | Pat Hamill |
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Theodore Conley | ... | Young Matt Hamill |
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Lexi Marman | ... | Kelly |
| Kara Luiz | ... | Vivian | |
| Cory Knauf | ... | Dale | |
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THE HAMMER is a sports drama depicting the struggles and successes Matt Hamill faced on the way to becoming a champion. Raised among those with the ability to hear, Matt later finds himself no less an outsider amidst the Deaf Community. Through sheer determination, he uses his perceived disability as an asset, and becomes both the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Championship and an inspirational force to the hearing and deaf alike. Written by Anonymous
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27 October 2011 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$8,442, 24 October 2011Gross USA:
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Matt Hamill: I ran out of time.
Coach Cantrell: No. He had a strategy - scoring points.
Matt Hamill: Yeah, but time ran out before I could...
Coach Cantrell: Pin him? You don't have to pin everyone you wrestle. The goal is to win, right? Takedown, reversal - two points. Escape - one point. Near fall - two or three points.
Matt Hamill: Coach, I know all this. Doesn't matter. I know I can pin him.
Coach Cantrell: Even the best wrestlers, they can't pin quality opponents most of the time. You don't have to pin. Just have to win.
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Written by Mykill Miers
Performed by Mykill Miers
Courtesy of Pump Audio/Getty Images
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Coach Pruitt, wrestling coach from Purdue, was played by Rich Franklin. In real life, Franklin fought Matt Hamill in UFC on September 6, 2008. See more »Goofs
When Matt and Michelle are getting food at the drive-thru, a shot of an Ohio Bicentennial license plate is shown on the car behind them. The movie was set in the 90s and Ohio's bicentennial was not until 2003. See more »Quotes
Coach Cantrell: Hey, you know why he beat you, right?Matt Hamill: I ran out of time.
Coach Cantrell: No. He had a strategy - scoring points.
Matt Hamill: Yeah, but time ran out before I could...
Coach Cantrell: Pin him? You don't have to pin everyone you wrestle. The goal is to win, right? Takedown, reversal - two points. Escape - one point. Near fall - two or three points.
Matt Hamill: Coach, I know all this. Doesn't matter. I know I can pin him.
Coach Cantrell: Even the best wrestlers, they can't pin quality opponents most of the time. You don't have to pin. Just have to win.
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Hamill is a simple story, well told.
Matt Hamill was born a deaf child in a hearing community. With a powerful mentor in the form of his loving grandfather, played with grit and heart by the wonderful Raymond J. Barry, and a supportive family, he grew up different, fighting (often literally) for acceptance and inclusion, throughout his school career. Matt never truly belonged until he became an adopted member of the Deaf community at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where the film shows him growing as an athlete and a person, leading to an epic and emotional finale.
Audiences will settle in quickly to the traditional biopic formula, but in this case, the formula does not restrict the filmmakers, but rather frees them to use innovative techniques in service to the story. The practice of subtitling the entire film is inclusive, and in and of itself brings the audience together in a shared experience. Multiple layers of commentary are laced throughout the tightly constructed screenplay, bringing issues such as bullying, alienation and angst, and the need for acceptance and inclusion, into the story.
Hamill is, in many ways, the first film of it's type, and has been long awaited in the Deaf community. It's a powerful and moving true story, and we can all see ourselves reflected in it.