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Undefeated

Name: Undefeated
Director: Daniel Lindsay
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Released: 2011
Duration: 1 h 53 min

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Documentary
Sport

2011
Daniel Lindsay
113 mins
12A

Summary

American football documentary. Manassas High School in Memphis has a football team that has hasn't won a game in more than a decade, and its players have problems both on and off the pitch. But businessman and volunteer coach Bill Courtney is determined that his team can rise above its shortcomings during the 2009 season.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Trevor Johnston

In a run-down corner of Tennessee, a volunteer football coach battles to help a high-school team better themselves and overcome over 100 years of underachievement. It sounds like the stuff of too many sports dramas, but this wonderful, Oscar-winning documentary is the real thing. The big games, injury crises and personality conflicts are all present, but the effect is so much more powerful here because film-makers Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin understand that what we're watching is more about building character than it is about winning games. On the surface, the film's portrait of a wise and near-saintly white coach trying to improve the lives of a bunch of underprivileged young Black men might seem like a cliché, but as the mixed fortunes of the group unfold, it becomes clear that the story's lessons of discipline feeding advancement are universal - and gripping viewing, to boot. It doesn't matter if you know little, and care even less, about American football; as events reach a climax, you won't be just watching this inspirational film, you'll feel like you're living it.

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7.7/10