Synopsis
Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.
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Cast
- Dwayne JohnsonSean Porter
- XzibitMalcolm Moore
- L. Scott CaldwellBobbi Porter
- Leon RippyPaul Higa
- Kevin DunnTed Dexter
- Jade YorkerWillie Weathers
- David V. ThomasKelvin Owens
- Setu TaaseJunior Palaita
- Mo McRaeLeon Hayes
- James EarlDonald Madlock
Recommendations
- 75
Premiere
Can he (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ) act? Surprisingly, for the most part, the answer is yes, and the film is a success for it. - 63
USA Today
The best thing about Gridiron Gang is the performance of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He is engaging, affable and wholly believable as a former football star turned officer in a juvenile detention center. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ultimately, the script lacks the ambiguity, irony and heartfelt emotion that would make the conversion of a dozen hardened criminals very credible, and -- despite its obvious good intentions -- the movie seems pat, simplistic and slightly phony. - 50
Village Voice
Never mind the obvious parallels to "The Longest Yard" and "Remember the Titans"; what we get here is one huge, indigestible sports movie platitude. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Parades itself as an ''honest'' message movie, a call for troubled kids to choose life over street nihilism, but the picture is so earnest that it leaves out the easy, old-school pleasure conjured by the last few years of Disney sports flicks (Invincible, Miracle, The Rookie). - 50
L.A. Weekly
In a true-life sports tale like the recent "Invincible," you buy into all the inspirational clichés because the characters have inner lives and the movie is about something bigger; here, you keep hoping for something bad to happen to somebody just for the sake of balance. - 50
Austin Chronicle
The film is a pleasant surprise. - 50
Chicago Tribune
As sports movies go, Gridiron Gang isn't bad, just not top-line material.
