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Gridiron Gang: Directed by Phil Joanou. With Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell, Leon Rippy. Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.
In the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league.
Sean Porter, a former college football star, comes up with an idea to form a football team. Porter believes that football will teach the teenage inmates what it takes to be responsible, teammates, and be winners for the first time, not losers.
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Rate. 48 Metascore. In 1971 Virginia high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the school board was forced to integrate an all-black school with an all-white one, the very foundation of football's tradition was put to the test.
Gridiron Gang: Directed by Phil Joanou. With Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell, Leon Rippy. Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.
During a practice scene, Dwayne Johnson can be seen paying tribute to his college career by wearing the number 94, the same number he wore during his time with the Miami Hurricanes. Based on a true story of a juvenile detention center football team that made it to the state championship.
Based on a true story in 1985. Derek is a dreamer and a loser. No matter how hard he tries he fails at everything he attempts. Determined to show the world he can succeed at something he forms an American Football team in a country dominated by Football, Rugby, Cricket and Fish & Chips.
Based on a true story of a juvenile detention center football team that made it to the state championship. The team was followed by a film crew and the footage became a TV documentary in 1993.
Gridiron Gang: Directed by Lee Stanley. With Louis Gossett Jr., Glen Bell, Michael Black, Mario Castillo. Losers in the game of life, these juvenile prisoners-the most violent of street criminals-are taught the game of football to take on 'straight schools' and learn what can happen when they commit themselves 100%.
