We Are Marshall (2006)

Director:

McG

Writers (WGA):

Jamie Linden (screenplay)
Cory Helms (story) ...

Release Date:

22 December 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sport

Tagline:

From the ashes we rose

Plot:

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.

Plot Keywords:

Coach | Football | Football Team | Plane Crash | Crash

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

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
Kimberly Williams-Paisley	...	Sandy Lengyel
Arlen Escarpeta	...	Reggie Oliver
Brian Geraghty	...	Tom Bogdan
Tommy Cresswell	...	Gene Morehouse
Christian Kanupke	...	Young Keith Morehouse
Nina Jones	...	Mrs. Morehouse
Kevin Atkins	...	George Olson
Mark Patton	...	Bill James

Also Known As:

Untitled Marshall University Football Project (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for emotional thematic material, a crash scene, and mild language.

Runtime:

131 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Netherlands:6 | South Korea:All | USA:PG (certificate #43100) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Germany:6

Filming Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

In the large stadium crowd scenes, hundreds local extras were used to fill the stands along with thousands of blow up dummies and thousands of CG Extras, to make the crowds appear larger.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: During shots of a conversation between Nate Ruffin and one of the other varsity players on the roof of a campus building, the new Library and Football Stadium (both built in the 1990s) appear in the background. The Stadium appears only once and is edited out of subsequent shots. However, the stadium is gone completely in the DVD version.

Quotes:

Nate Ruffin: Coach, that... was my team. They left it in my hands.
Jack Lengyel: No... no, they did not. They just left.

Movie Connections:

Features "NBC Nightly News" (1970)

Soundtrack:

The Love You Save

Great inspiring movie.. We Are Marshall

I went to watch the movie here in New York State. I absolutely loved the movie as did my entire family. I cried a lot but also laughed here and there. The movie was well done with only a few little things I noticed that were changed, but overall it was very true to the story I grew up with and the facts I know.

Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox did a wonderful job in their parts. I was quite impressed with every actor in the movie actually, they all did a fantastic job. McG did a great job in bringing the story to the screen. You were there in that time and during the tragedy and felt what Huntington went through.

As I left the movie, I thought about the ones who died in the plane crash and cried again. For those of you who haven't seen the movie or know the story this isn't just a story about loosing a football team. The crash also claimed members of the football staff and prominent people of the town of Huntington. The other players in other sports lived in the dorms with the football players who perished. They felt the impact when returning to school and all those faces now gone from their halls. The staff was down to almost nothing. The citizens that died included doctors, lawyers, a car dealership owner, dentist,a council member for Huntington and radio announcers for the herd. So, you can see this impacted the town in a way most won't or don't understand. If you watch the movie you can see how it effects everyone. I would like to now take a moment to remember those who passed .................................................................. We will never forget you.

In the end this movie is about moving on, dealing with your grief or loss and how to live again. How as to rise above the ashes and move forward as it is said in the movie.

I think people of 20 years of age and older will love this movie. I ran into several people of these age ranges that asked me questions and told of how they were going to tell their friends to go see the movie as well. I hope this movie touches and shows everyone how to rise from the ashes and move forward. In today's world of tragedies this is a movie that will touch you if you have dealt with a tragedy yourself. So, I think several people will be able to relate to this movie and find it inspiring.

Being a Huntington native I will always bleed green. GO HERD!!!! We Are ......................................... Marshall.