We're smack dab in the middle of baseball season, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate a good football movie.
Football has taken a hit in recent years. It's often plagued with news about assaults, drugs, and incessant politics that keep the focus places other than the field and gameplay.
Enter 12 Mighty Orphans, which reminds us how football can be used to unite and raise marginalized kids from obscurity into fine young men.
Family-friendly, inspirational films once proliferated movie theaters, but an obsession with crime and violence have culled dramatic efforts from most venues, but this Ty Roberts-directed film from a script he, Lane Garrison, and Kevin Meyer adapted from Larry Dent's novel bucks the trend.
Luke Wilson stars in 12 Might Orphans as Rusty Russell, a legendary Texas football coach who coached football for the Masonic Home and School orphanage from 1927-1941.
As we battle daily about whether...
Football has taken a hit in recent years. It's often plagued with news about assaults, drugs, and incessant politics that keep the focus places other than the field and gameplay.
Enter 12 Mighty Orphans, which reminds us how football can be used to unite and raise marginalized kids from obscurity into fine young men.
Family-friendly, inspirational films once proliferated movie theaters, but an obsession with crime and violence have culled dramatic efforts from most venues, but this Ty Roberts-directed film from a script he, Lane Garrison, and Kevin Meyer adapted from Larry Dent's novel bucks the trend.
Luke Wilson stars in 12 Might Orphans as Rusty Russell, a legendary Texas football coach who coached football for the Masonic Home and School orphanage from 1927-1941.
As we battle daily about whether...
- 7/18/2021
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Rusty Russell (Luke Wilson), Snoggs (Jacob Lofland) and Doc Hall (Martin Sheen) discuss the next play, in 12 Mighty Orphans.
Photo by Laura Wilson. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
This true-story film is a feel-good lesson in brains over brawny and persistence, a Depression-era underdog story about a team of orphans who revolutionizing how football is played. Viewers do not have to be a football fans to be charmed by this tale of scrappy outsiders that no one expects to succeed, overturning all those assumptions. “The Mighty Mites” is a team of 12 undersized orphans at Mason Hall, a Masonic orphanage and school, led by their science teacher, Rusty Russell, who was an orphan himself.
It is a classic story told in a classic style, but with a kind of Jimmy Stewart charm. Director Ty Roberts has a lot of fun with this historical sports story, giving it a scrappy energy, with...
Photo by Laura Wilson. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
This true-story film is a feel-good lesson in brains over brawny and persistence, a Depression-era underdog story about a team of orphans who revolutionizing how football is played. Viewers do not have to be a football fans to be charmed by this tale of scrappy outsiders that no one expects to succeed, overturning all those assumptions. “The Mighty Mites” is a team of 12 undersized orphans at Mason Hall, a Masonic orphanage and school, led by their science teacher, Rusty Russell, who was an orphan himself.
It is a classic story told in a classic style, but with a kind of Jimmy Stewart charm. Director Ty Roberts has a lot of fun with this historical sports story, giving it a scrappy energy, with...
- 6/18/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sports writer Jim Dent had the best of both worlds when deciding to write the book Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football. He had ragtag kids languishing in a Texas orphanage who were able to find the self-respect and courage necessary to overcome stigmas the label “orphan” possessed on and off the field in 1927, as well as a leader in Coach Rusty Russell who would end up revolutionizing football with the advent of the spread offense. That’s feel-good camaraderie and historically relevant biography all wrapped into one to tell an unlikely story that even gets a cameo from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. No surprise that Hollywood would come calling, too.
Ty Roberts’ 12 Mighty Orphans isn’t, however, a Disney property, despite its narrative fitting their catalog of underdog sports dramas. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing when you...
Ty Roberts’ 12 Mighty Orphans isn’t, however, a Disney property, despite its narrative fitting their catalog of underdog sports dramas. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing when you...
- 6/15/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Tonight, the second episode of A&E’s Rooster & Butch first season sees Rooster McConaughey and Butch Gilliam on the receiving end of crazy get rich quick pitches left on their answering machine. Self-made millionaires, Mike “Rooster” McConaughey and Butch Gilliam, are all about the American Dream and are looking for ambitious entrepreneurs to invest in or with and create a new fortune. They are joined by Gil Prather, as the West Texas team is wheelin’ and dealin’ finding the boldest investment opportunities out there. Think Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid meet Shark Tank, with a little McConaughey mixed in...read more...
- 1/17/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
FX’s “Fargo” and NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” are among the latest TV series to be recognized for their portrayal of military veterans by the Got Your 6 campaign.
Got Your 6, which looks to integrate positive portrayals of veterans into popular culture, also honored episodes of Bravo’s “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” History’s “Live to Tell,” Netflix’s “Marvel’s Daredevil,” USA’s “Shooter” and CNBC’s “West Texas Investors Club,” as well as the feature film “Max” and the short film “Day One.”
It’s the latest round of Hollywood projects deemed “6 Certified” by Got Your 6, which encourages storytellers to offer a balanced depiction of veterans beyond just “broken heroes.”
Inaugural recipients of the honor include NBC’s “The Night Shift,” a medical drama set in San Antonio that regularly depicts active military and veteran characters. Got Your 6 and the stars and producers of...
Got Your 6, which looks to integrate positive portrayals of veterans into popular culture, also honored episodes of Bravo’s “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” History’s “Live to Tell,” Netflix’s “Marvel’s Daredevil,” USA’s “Shooter” and CNBC’s “West Texas Investors Club,” as well as the feature film “Max” and the short film “Day One.”
It’s the latest round of Hollywood projects deemed “6 Certified” by Got Your 6, which encourages storytellers to offer a balanced depiction of veterans beyond just “broken heroes.”
Inaugural recipients of the honor include NBC’s “The Night Shift,” a medical drama set in San Antonio that regularly depicts active military and veteran characters. Got Your 6 and the stars and producers of...
- 6/20/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
[caption id="attachment_49724" align="aligncenter" width="590"] West Texas Investors Club TV series on CNBC premieres June 7, 2016. Image via CNBC./caption]
Putting its money where its mouth is, CNBC announces the second season of its West Texas Investors Club TV show premieres Tuesday, June 7, 2016, at 10:00pm Et/Pt. The series stars multi-millionaire investors Rooster McConaughey and Butch Gilliam, and their friend Gil Pranther.
West Texas Investors Club is produced by The Ebersol Lanigan Company with Charlie Ebersol, Mike Lanigan and Jason Henry as executive producers. Jim Ackerman and Luke Bauer are the executive producers for CNBC.
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Putting its money where its mouth is, CNBC announces the second season of its West Texas Investors Club TV show premieres Tuesday, June 7, 2016, at 10:00pm Et/Pt. The series stars multi-millionaire investors Rooster McConaughey and Butch Gilliam, and their friend Gil Pranther.
West Texas Investors Club is produced by The Ebersol Lanigan Company with Charlie Ebersol, Mike Lanigan and Jason Henry as executive producers. Jim Ackerman and Luke Bauer are the executive producers for CNBC.
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- 5/25/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
CNBC has renewed “West Texas Investors Club” for a second season, the network announced Tuesday. The series follows Mike “Rooster” McConaughey and his friend and business partner Butch Gilliam, both self-made millionaires in Texas’ oil fields, who now look for entrepreneurs with business ideas in which they can invest. The series also features Gil Prather, a friend of McConaughey’s who is not an investor. On the first season of “West Texas Investors Club,” McConaughey and Gilliam invested $1.97 million in the ideas of aspiring entrepreneurs. See video: Rooster McConaughey's 'West Texas Investors Club' Shoots Down Fly-by-Night Business...
- 9/15/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
CNBC has picked up a second season of West Texas Investors Club, from The Profit producer Charlie Ebersol. The eight-episode unscripted series focuses on self-made oil and real estate millionaires Rooster McConaughey and Butch Gilliam and their Shark Tank-style decisions on whose projects they should invest in. The show also features colorful country music star Gil Prather.The three invite ambitious entrepreneurs from across the country to come down to West Texas and make…...
- 9/15/2015
- Deadline TV
It doesn’t look like Rooster McConaughey and Butch Gilliam will be flying the friendly skies with one young entrepreneur anytime soon. In an exclusive clip obtained by TheWrap of Tuesday’s episode of CNBC’s “West Texas Investors Club,” a young man is seeking $75,000 to help launch his own air travel app. The money would go toward obtaining a Part 135 certificate. “What the hell is a 135? What is that?” McConaughey asks. “It’s a certificate that allows you to fly and charge people money for your services,” Gilliam explains. Also Read: Matthew McConaughey's Brother Rooster on CNBC's Investors...
- 9/1/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
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