Necessary Roughness (1991) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Necessary Roughness
Year
1991
Running time
104 min.
Country
United States
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
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Genre
Comedy | Sports. American Football
Synopsis
Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule. With fewer players than most teams, the makeshift team must overcome obstacles that the best teams in the country couldn't deal with. Using a 34 year old quarterback, a female placekicker and a gang of misfits, Ed "Straight Arrow" Genero must take his team to play the number one Texas Colts.
Critics' reviews
- "The premise might sound gimmicky, but it's realized honestly and specifically."
- "'Necessary Roughness', a football comedy of unnecessary blandness, has the same problem as the Miami Dolphins: It dies in the second half"
- "'Necessary Roughness' has the right kind of rambunctious spirit for this kind of picture"
- "An amiable comedy about a patched-together football squad, tries to do just that, comes up short after half time, but hangs on well enough to beat the spread."
- "Essentially, the film's strategy is to fight predictability with bonehead amiability, and on this level it's a crowd-pleaser."
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