We Are Marshall [Blu-ray]

Overview

In this sports drama that draws its inspiration from an actual tragedy that occurred in 1970, the West Virginia-based Marshall football team struggles to keep the spirit of the game alive after an airplane crash claims numerous members of the team and coaching staff, as well as local commentators and supporters. Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, and David Strathairn star.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/18/2007
UPC:	0085391117605
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	PG
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:11:00
Sales rank:	11,508

Special Features

Legendary Coaches: how coaches overcome adversity; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Matthew McConaughey	Jack Lengyel
Matthew Fox	Red Dawson
Anthony Mackie	Nate Ruffin
David Strathairn	President Dedmon
Ian McShane	Paul Griffen
Kate Mara	Annie Cantrell
January Jones	Carole Dawson,Mrs. Morehouse
Kimberly Williams-Paisley	Sandy Lengyel
Arlen Escarpeta	Reggie Oliver
Brian Geraghty	Tom Bogdan
Tommy Cresswell	Gene Morehouse
Christian Kanupke	Young Keith Morehouse
Kevin Atkins	George Olson
Mark Patton	Bill James
Huntley Ritter	Randy Linden
Brett Rice	Lloyd Boone
Dalton Polston	Peter Lengyel
Andrew Wilson Williams	David Lengyel,Jane,Jane
Ellie Zellers	Julie Lengyel
Brian Beegle	Lucas Booth
L. Warren Young	Mickey Jackson,Janitor
David Dwyer	Hutch Davis
Wes Brown	Chris Griffen
Mike Pniewski	Bobby Bowden
Cafabian Heard	Danny
Mandy Best	Katie
Laura-Shay Griffin	Julie
Kate Kneeland	Ticket Taker,Ticket Taker
Mark Oliver	Ernie Salvatore
Elizabeth Omilami	President's Secretary
Scott Hilley	Man In The Rain
Andrew DiPalma	Diner Student #1
Bill Crabb	Gas Station Attendant
Jeff Adelman	Diner Student #2
Dolan Wilson	Steel Worker
Billy Woods	Airport Booster #1
Sharalene Kile	Doris Stillwell
Phillip Ivey	Man In The Car At The Theater
Wilbur Fitzgerald	Fireman #1
Jody Thompson	Barrier Policeman
David Ramsey	Father
Rhoda Griffis	Mrs. Shaw
Billy Bennett	Blake Smith
Patrick Parker	Mr. Booth
Joey Nappo	Beer Freshman
Michael DiFiore	W.V. Player
Maurice Bryant	Xavier #19
Tim Crowley	Referee
Alex Van	Trainer
Anaiah Petty	Freshman #3
Ron Smith	Jim McNally
Taber Lathrop	Steven Morehouse
Jake Cooper	Freshman #1
William Gorman	Freshman #2
Jeff Portell	Fireman #2
Alyssa Caputo	Gail Morehouse
Keith Morehouse	Keith Morehouse
Mike Ribaudo	Baseball Catcher
Bobby Jordan	Baseball Runner
Dock Pollard	Terry Gardner
Bert Beatson	Player #3
Steven Barr	Game Announcer
Bobby Drinkard	Player #4
Ryan Sloth	Marshall #51
Brent Garber	Shalhoop

Technical Credits

Jamie Linden

McG	Director,Producer
Jeanne Allgood	Executive Producer
William Fay	Executive Producer
Matthew Robert Kelly	Executive Producer
Scott Mednick	Executive Producer
Thomas Tull	Executive Producer
Basil Iwanyk	Producer
Trumaine McBride	Executive Producer
Brent O'Connor	Executive Producer
Jamie Linden	Screenwriter
Justine Baddeley	Casting
Robert Kempf	Key Grip
Thomas Dadras	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Many sports movies blend together, relying as they do on inexperienced, undersized, or underfunded underdogs. We Are Marshall presents a different kind of underdog: a team built literally from ashes, as nearly the entire Marshall University football team was killed in a November 1970 plane crash. The story of the Marshall Thundering Herd was begging to be told, and McG gets it just right. The director known for his flashy approach to the Charlie's Angels movies, and for the abbreviated moniker that irks his detractors, shows exquisite maturity in handling this sober material, eliminating the bombast, but keeping the crispness and visual kineticism appropriate to a football movie. Of course, this is much more than a football movie. The Marshall plane crash realized the distant fears felt whenever an entire team boards an airplane together, and the aftermath predictably tore the school and the town apart. Matthew McConaughey's Jack Lengyel rightly observes that it doesn't matter whether the greenhorn Marshall players win, or even how they play, but that they play. This frees We Are Marshall from having to follow the structure of a typical sports film, letting it instead be about the unimaginable process of building a team from the ground up while the principles are deep in mourning. Playing a football coach, McConaughey has found a role perfectly suited to his mixture of playfulness and sincerity. He gives a warm, precise performance, never once phoning it in. Other standouts in the cast include Matthew Fox as the assistant coach who was supposed to be on the plane, Ian McShane as a prominent booster who lost a son in the crash, and Anthony Mackie as a player who missed the trip due to injury, whose grief-stricken passion is perfectly toned. That rush you feel whenever an undeterred crowd chants "We are Marshall!" is no manipulation. This is an intense story told with heart.