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American football coach Sean Porter presides over Camp Kilpatrick juvenile detention centre. The inmates include Willie Weathers, a gang member doing time for a botched act of revenge. Fellow inmate and rival gang member Calvin Owens wonÆt let Willie forget that they are sworn enemies. But once Porter introduces American football as an outlet, the common goal of winning unites them in ways that no one expected...

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ProducerNeal H. Moritz

EAN5050630129539

eBay Product ID (ePID)59994163

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Film/TV TitleGridiron Gang

ActorL. Scott Caldwell, Jamal Mixon, David Thomas, Xzibit, Kevin Dunn, Leon Rippy, The Rock, Trevor O'brien, Dwayne Johnson, Vanessa Ferlito, Brandon Smith, Jade Yorker

DirectorPhil Joanou

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

Release Year2007

FeaturesWidescreen, Closed Caption, Deleted Scenes

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

GenreDrama

Run Time120 Mins

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Certificate12A/12

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ReviewsSight And Sound - [The Rock's] committed performance is mostly external....But there is also introspection...

Consumer AdviceContains moderate violence and one use of strong language

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

Additional InformationIn 1990, coaches Sean Porter and Malcolm Moore took the Kilpatrick Mustangs--an American football team of hardcore juvenile offenders from CaliforniaÆs Camp Kilpatrick juvenile detention centre--through their inaugural season, in which they reached the regional championships. In 1993, an Emmy-winning documentary, GRIDIRON GANG, aired on U.S. television. In this fictionalised version of the same name, Dwayne æThe RockÆ Johnson stars as Porter, the coach who uses sports as a means to instil self-esteem into a group of boys for whom crime is a way of life. A former troubled youth who used football as a means to stay off of the streets, Porter, along with Malcolm Moore (Xzibit) now presides over Camp Kilpatrick, where the inmates are gang members, murderers, and drug dealers. Among them are Willie Weathers (Jade York), a gang member doing time for a botched act of revenge. Showing that old rivalries hold true even away from the streets, fellow inmate and rival gang member Calvin Owens (David Thomas) wonÆt let Willie forget that they are sworn enemies. But once Porter introduces American football as an outlet, the common goal of winning unites them in ways that no one expected. Director Phil Joanou (STATE OF GRACE) keeps the proceedings gritty, giving us not only the uplifting and exciting American football sequences, but also a handful of heart-pounding--and somewhat graphic--scenes of gang violence, and former Yes member Trevor RabinÆs effective score is a nice alternative to the typical pop soundtrack. Not all sweetness and light, GRIDIRON GANG is fine addition to the realm of cinematic sports, levelling the more sentimental aspects of the film with a copious counter-dose of realism.

Movie/TV TitleGridiron Gang

Executive ProducerMichael Rachmil

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

ScreenwriterJeff Maguire