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The Comebacks (2007)
Director: Tom Brady
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Born loser Lambeau “Coach” Fields (Koechner) must take a band of lovable misfits and lead them to high-school football glory in this vacuous spoof of inspirational sports films. The Comebacks irrefutably signals a precipitous decline in the quality of goofy sports comedies—a genre that reached its Scott Bakula–ized zenith in 1991 with the evergreen gridiron classic Necessary Roughness. Not even a gutsy performance from Rocky’s Carl Weathers could prevent shuddering at Coach Fields’s end-of-film mention of a possible sequel—which would inevitably be more painful than receiving a full-speed, open-field hit from Michael Strahan.Author: Drew Toal
Time Out New York Issue 630: October 25-31, 2007
Cast & crew
Director: Tom Brady
Cast: David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Will Arnett, Dax Shepard, Eric Christian Olsen full cast
Rated: PG-13
Duration: 88 mins
US Release: Oct 19 2007
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