Movie: Undefeated
Release Date: February 17, 2012 (limited)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Dan Lindsay, TJ Martin
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
Official Website: Undefeatedmovie.com
IMDB Rating: 5.4
Story: High school football film Undefeated (pictured), New York Times-set doc Page One and chimpanzee story Project Nim are among the nominees for the best documentary prize at the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s 17th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.
The docs are competing in a category of six nominees, with the other contenders being Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Cindy Meehl’s Buck.
The winner will be named at the Critics Choice Awards ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium in LA on January 12, 2012. Last year’s doc winner was Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for “Superman.”
Superbowl XLVI has gone and Pats passed. But before you put football to the back burner until next season, a new documentary about a high school football team is ready to keep you in the football spirit.
With an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature already under its belt, Undefeated, which opens in theaters Feburary 17th, is sure to leave audiences captivated and inspired.
Set against the backdrop of a high school football season, Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s documentary UNDEFEATED is an intimate chronicle of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field.
Founded in 1899, Manassas High School in North Memphis has never seen its football team, the Tigers, win a playoff game. In recent decades, the last-place Tigers had gone so far as to sell its regular season games to rival schools looking to chalk up an easy win.
That began to change in 2004, when Bill Courtney, former high school football coach turned businessman, volunteered to lend a hand. When Courtney arrived, the Tigers were accustomed to timeworn equipment and a sorry patch of lawn as a practice field. Focusing on nurturing emotional as well as physical strength, Courtney has helped the Tigers find their footing and their confidence.
The 2009 Summer/Fall football season promises to be the Tigers’ best ever — perhaps the season that finally breaks the 110 year-old playoff jinx. It’s the senior year for the team’s star player, O.C., a left tackle blessed with power, size and speed. With football scholarships hanging in the balance, O.C. will have to juggle practice with the study sessions he needs to pass crucial exams. Also playing his last season is undersized offensive lineman Montrail – known to all as “Money” — an earnest honors student hoping to score an academic scholarship. For Chavis, a talented linebacker in his junior year, the challenge of 2009 lies in keeping his explosive temper in check — something the willful teenager isn’t always interested in doing.
For players and coaches alike, the season will be not only about winning games — it will be about how they grapple with the unforeseeable events that are part of football and part of life.
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