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The Game of Their Lives

2005

David Anspaugh

Wes Bentley, Gerard Butler, Jay Rodan, Patrick Stewart ...

5.0

637

Drama In the spring of 1950, the United States was extended an invitation to compete in the World Cup in Brazil. Faced with budgetary restrictions and no official soccer team to call their own, the U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer hotbed of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with no professional or international playing experience, only an unabashed love of the game. Leaving behind their wives, ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Mike Goodridge Screendaily	"Stunningly pedestrian (...) It is well-produced but groan-worthily banal (...) The disappointment here is deepened by the waste of a strong cast."
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A reverent fable of such soothing proportions that it would be churlish to ask if America ever really looked like that"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] scores nil on dramatic goals (...) Strange, how it follows the form of a sports movie but has the dutiful feeling of an educational film (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"

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