Matthew Mcconaughey Movie:

		List Price: $34.99		Label: Warner Brothers Salesrank: 5010 Released: September 18, 2007
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		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Football is a game that knocks you down, then expects you to get back up. Life hit the West Virginia town of Huntington and its Marshall University even harder. When it did, Jack Lengyel came by to help pull them onto their feet by taking the job no one wanted: rebuilding the Marshall football program only months after a plane crash wiped out Marshall's beloved Thundering Herd. Matthew McConaughey portrays Lengyel, the energetic, compassionate coach of inexperienced players whose chances of victory are slim and none. They'll go with the slim. And as they do, their true-life story of heart, healing, and football will thrill and inspire you. It's game day. Time to play till the whistle blows!

DVD Features:
Documentary
Theatrical Trailer

Description of We Are Marshall [Blu-ray]:
There seems to be no end to beating-the-odds football movies these days, and if they all peak with a breathless moment of anticipation during a clutch play, then We Are Marshall, based on a true story, has plenty of (mostly good) company. Matthew McConaughey plays Jack Lengyel, who becomes head coach--more or less by default--of Marshall University's rebuilding varsity football team in Huntington, W. Va., after the school's 37-member team and coaches (and a number of others) die in a plane crash in the Appalachian Mountains on Nov. 14, 1970. Facing an indifferent college president (David Strathairn) ready to shut the football program down, a morose assistant coach (Matthew Fox), and a charged-up player (Anthony Mackie) who missed the doomed flight due to an injury, Lengyel is faced with fielding a new team and putting the players through their paces. There are the usual, perhaps too-familiar, training montages and field action, but screenwriter Jamie Linden and director McG (Charlie's Angels) also draw some very good peformances from the likes of Kate Mara and Ian McShane, contributing to an emotional tapestry conveying a powerful sense of how such a sizable loss affects a small community. --Tom Keogh

We Are Marshall [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Through AMAZON store - a great purchase!
2009-12-08 - As for the Movie, it is a well written and acurate account of the plane crash. As for the movie itself purchased through AMAZON, it arrived perfect and really fast, within 3 days, it was in our mail box. GREAT!!!!

overall pleased
2009-10-21 - the dvd was only a penny plus 2.95 s& h so you cant beat that it came with case and dvd played perfectly the only complaint is that the case was cracked when i got it

How To Respond After Tragedy
2009-06-23 - This was a nice movie, interesting all the way, a combination sports film and melodrama and based on a tragic real-life event: a 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people including all but a couple of players and coaches on the Marshall University football team.

It's a film that when it is over, you're glad you watched it. That's a good endorsement right there.

Matthew McConaughey's role as head coach "Jack Lengyel" was a little goofy. I question whether the real coach was this "quirky," but I'm not complaining because it made "Lengyel" -- in the film - a lot of fun to watch. The screenwriters probably did that for just for that purpose, and it worked. The one football game featured is a little hokey, too, but I didn't say the movie is great, just entertaining and inspiring, which is good enough for me.

By the way, check out the bonus feature about "Living Legends." It has a half-dozen famous coaches in America give their philosophies on coaching and some of the segments are very interesting with some profound statements in them


We Are Marshall
2009-05-16 - Being a Marshall alum this movie had special meaning to me. Therefore, my rating may be a little high. However, regardless of whether you attended Marshall or not this is still an excellent movie.

I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did! We Are Marshall!!!

Some strong performances, but not the best movie I've seen
2009-05-10 - Matthew Fox, and most memorably, Nate Ruffin, turn in very strong performances. Otherwise, this is an OK movie to watch with your sports-loving husband and not much else. Matthew McConaughey is creditable, but he was more dramatic on Oprah while promoting the movie. I know he believed in the project, I just wish he had a better script and director to work with.