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The Replacements

2000

Howard Deutch

Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Orlando Jones, Jon Favreau ...

5.5

6,137

Comedy The 1987 National Football League players' strike inspired this sports-themed comedy. The Washington Sentinels are one of the strongest teams in pro football -- until contract negotiations break down and the Sentinels go on strike. Determined to play the team's schedule, owner Edward O'Neil (Jack Warden) recruits a ragtag band of scab players, to be headed up and whipped into shape by the retired veteran coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"'[It] is so eager to please that it's like a Labrador retriever that slobbers all over you and leaves hair on your favorite sweater"
		Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle	"In short, it's a collection of has-beens, never-weres, and not-a-chance-in-hells. And that's what makes 'The Replacements' so much fun (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'The Replacements' is slap-happy entertainment painted in broad strokes, two coats thick. It's like a standard sports movie, but with every point made twice or three times (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"By the time 'The Replacements' gets down to the inevitable big-game finale, which the otherwise happily brain-dead comedy plays relatively straight, it's hard to care even on such a superficial level."
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"The casting is weird and counterintuitive, bordering on preposterous (...) The cues about privilege and resentment, money and class, are loud but vague"

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