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-The
Rock
In
1990,
coaches
Sean
Porter
and
Malcolm
Moore
took
the
Kilpatrick
Mustangs--a
football
team
of
hard-core
juvenile
offenders
from
California’s
Camp
Kilpatrick
juvenile
detention
center--through
their
inaugural
season,
in
which
they
reached
the
regional
championships.
In
1993,
an
Emmy-winning
documentary,
GRIDIRON
GANG,
aired
on
U.S.
television.
In
this
fictionalized
version
of
the
same
name,
Dwayne
"The
Rock"
Johnson
stars
as
Porter,
the
coach
who
uses
sports
as a
means
to
instill
self-esteem
into
a
group
or
boys
for
whom
crime
is a
way
of
life.
A
former
troubled
youth
who
used
football
as a
means
to
stay
off
of
the
streets,
Porter,
along
with
Malcolm
Moore
(Xibit)
now
presides
over
Camp
Kilpatrick,
where
the
inmates
are
gang
members,
murderers,
and
drug
dealers.
Among
them
are
Willie
Weathers
(Jade
York),
a
gang
member
doing
time
for
a
botched
act
of
revenge.
Showing
that
old
rivalries
hold
true
even
away
from
the
streets,
fellow
inmate
and
rival
gang
member
Calvin
Owens
(David
Thomas)
won’t
let
Willie
forget
that
they
are
sworn
enemies.
But
once
Porter
introduces
football
as
an
outlet,
the
common
goal
of
winning
unites
them
in
ways
that
no
one
expected.
Sports
films
are
not
known
for
harboring
O-Henry-like
twists
at
their
conclusions,
and
GRIDIRON
GANG
is
no
exception,
but
director
Phil
Joanou
(STATE
OF
GRACE)
keeps
the
proceedings
gritty
(especially
for
a
PG-13
rating),
giving
us
not
only
the
uplifting
and
exciting
football
sequences,
but
also
a
handful
of
heart-pounding--and
somewhat
graphic--scenes
of
gang
violence,
and
former
Yes
member
Trevor
Rabin’s
effective
score
is a
nice
alternative
to
the
typical
pop
soundtrack.
Not
all
sweetness
and
light,
GRIDIRON
GANG
is
fine
addition
to
the
realm
of
cinematic
sports,
leavening
the
sap
with
a
copious
counter-dose
of
realism.
Rated
PG-13
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of
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1948-2006 Muze
Inc.
and
Muze
Europe
Ltd.
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