“A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect. Written by IMDb editor”

• Director: John Lee Hancock
• Release Date:
  20 November 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  USA:128 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Sport
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references.

Trivia: When Tim McGraw’s character teaches Michael the meaning of “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, the basketball game on the TV is Georgia Tech at Georgia.

Goofs: Factual errors: Early in the movie, we see an archway at the entrance to the Christian high school with a slogan/quotation on it, which reads, “With man this is possible, but with God all things are possible.” This is a misquote of what Jesus says in Matthew 19:26, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” and Luke 18:27, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”