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The Replacements (Snap Case) DVD

PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Warner Home Video :: Released: 2000-11-28


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The Replacements (Snap Case) Summary A Comedy Based On The 1987 Professional Football Players' Strike. Gene Hackman Plays The Coach Of The Team, Jack Warden Is The Owner, Brett Cullen Is The All-pro Quarterback That Goes On Strike And Keanu Reeves Is The "scab" Who Replaces The Star Qb.

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
Replacements DVD Techincal Details Cast: Gene Hackman, Keith David, Jon Favreau, Greg Goossen
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 118 mins
UPC: 085391858522
Binding: DVD
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2000-11-28
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled),
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