The Replacements (Snap Case)

Product description A washed-up quarter back (Reeves) leads a team of misfit football players assembled by a coach (Hackman) to replace striking pro players. Item Type: DVD Movie Item Rating: PG13 Street Date: 02/08/05 Wide Screen: yes Director Cut: no Special Edition: no Language: ENGLISH Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no Dubbed: no Full Frame: yes Re-Release: no Packaging: Sleeve Amazon.com The Replacements manages to be both completely formulaic and yet immensely enjoyable. When a professional football players' strike happens, the owner of a fictitious team, the Washington Sentinels, commissions maverick coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to pull together a team. McGinty selects a collection of talented oddballs--a Welsh soccer player, a sumo wrestler, a couple of professional bodyguards--with athletic pasts, figuring that if it doesn't work out as a game, it might as well be a circus. To lead the team, he finds Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a once-promising player who had a disastrous championship game. Naturally, despite squabbling and bickering, a roguish camaraderie develops through a mixture of racial infighting, harassment from the striking professionals, and a big bar brawl--after which they're all thrown in jail and perform the most improbable impromptu dance number ever committed to film. The mixture of cheerfully cliché plot mechanics, an engaging collection of supporting actors (including Orlando Jones, Rhys Ifans from Notting Hill, and Jon Favreau from Swingers), and sheer ridiculousness somehow combines to make The Replacements completely entertaining. Reeves is somehow turning into a pleasant leading man; he even emotes convincingly in this movie. And let's face it, Gene Hackman is quite possibly the greatest actor alive, able to speak the trashiest dialogue with fierce conviction. Plus, just to prove that the tight pants and close huddles of football are heterosexual, there are many, many shots of cheerleaders going through stripper-inspired routines. --Bret Fetzer
ASIN: B00003CXLV
VSKU: HBSV.B00003CXLV.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Gene Hackman|Keanu Reeves|Keith David|Greg Goossen|Jon Favreau|Art La Fleur|Faizon Love|Cliff McMullen|Robyn Peterson|Brett Cullen|James Black|Craig Sechler|Gailard Sartain|Jack Warden|Pat Summerall|Zachary I. Young|Robert Shepherd|Dylan Sellers|F. Stephen Schmidt|Michelle Johnston|Michael Jace|Rhys Ifans|Brooke Langton|Orlando Jones|Caroline Keenan|John Madden|Troy Winbush|Michael "Bear" Taliferro|Marty Wright|David Denman|Ace Yonamine|Ken Martin|Bob Angelo|Mark Robert Ellis|Andrea Barnes|Tom Barry|Elliot Balis|Edward M. Beckford Jr.|Mara Berman|Michael Brinkman|Al Brown|Carol Caesar|John Clark|Stella Choe|Todd Champagne|Michelle Courtney|Laura L. Cottrel|Dave Cureton|Amber Dulski|Marcia Dor Etain|Tim Estep|Leanna Foglia|Jon K. Farless|Jon Garcia|Levis Francis|Marc C. Geshwind|Andrea Graham|Archie L. Harris Jr.|Len Greenblatt|Colette Hillman|Seymour Horowitz|Elisa Jacobs|Jesper Inglis|Milinda A. Jefferson|Jaya Kanal|Tom Korzenioski|Renee Latimore|Kenward Lee|Christian Lyon|Russell Marcum|William J. McKeon III|Eric Miller|Sarah Ann Morris|Paul Morella|Royan Miller|Melissa Musotto|O.D.B.|Doug Olear|Pete Ohnegian|Rhonda Overby|Evan Dexter Parke|Heather Pedersen|Richard Pilcher|Mia Reeves|Kevin Reid|Michelle Pinkham|Justin Reimer|Tyrone Roy|Emily Roberts|Gemma Roskam|E. Dawn Samuel|Nicole Schiro|Chris Stabile|Stephanie Sutch|Margie Tompros|Robert Vique|Mary Ann Walsh|Jamie Vane|Gregory L. Williams|Kel Watrin|Justin L. Wilson|Seanna Zimmerman|Todd Eric Yeaman|Tak Fujimoto|Bud Smith|Mike Thomas|Ed Morey III|Howard Deutch|John Debney|Seth Flaum
Binding: Dvd
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Condition Notes: Dvd comes in original case and case has original artwork. Disc may have some minor scratches but is in good condition.Case may have some general wear. Be sure check out thousands of our other dvds on this platform. If dvd came with digital code, code may be used.