Running alongside the closing credits for "Gridiron Gang" is a series of clips from a 1993 documentary of the same name, which provided the basis for this drama about a football team at a Los Angeles juvenile detention center. The real people say and do the same things we just saw actors say and do, only in a stripped-down, matter-of-fact manner, and without the swelling of bombastic music to accompany every feel-good or poignant event. Those final few moments are more powerful than anything we saw during the previous two hours, simply because they don't try so hard to be. Read the full review
A detention camp probation officer creates a high-school-level football team from a ragtag group of dangerous teen inmates as a means to teach them self-respect and social responsibility. But first he must first overcome resistance from his skeptical bosses and coaches at rival high schools who don't want their players mixing it up with convicted criminals on the football field.
Director: Phil Joanou
Starring: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, L. Scott Caldwell, Xzibit, Kevin Dunn, Leon Rippy
Run time: 120 minutes
Release date: Sept. 15, 2006
Rating: PG-13 for some startling scenes of violence, mature thematic material and language.
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The Associated Press: C
"Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson does exude his usual natural magnetism as the probation officer turned coach, even though his tough-love tactics are a classic sports movie cliché."
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