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With Luke Wilson, Vinessa Shaw, Wayne Knight, Martin Sheen. Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high-school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
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- History, Sport
- Ty Roberts
- 2021-06-18
12 Mighty Orphans is a 2021 American sports film which was directed by Ty Roberts from a screenplay by Roberts, Lane Garrison and Kevin Meyer. It is based upon the non-fiction book Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football by Jim Dent.
A coach inspires Depression-era orphans to play football. 5,373. IMDb 6.9 1 h 57 min 2021 X-Ray HDR UHD PG-13. Historical • Sports • Touching • Feel-good. Watch with STARZ. Start your 7-day free trial. Rent. UHD $3.89. Buy.
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12 MIGHTY ORPHANS tells the true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without...
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- Ty Roberts
- PG-13
- Luke Wilson
- Had Coach Rusty Russell Been A Player at The Collegiate level?
- Is 12 Mighty Orphans Based on The Book?
- Did The Real Team of Orphans Have only 12 Players?
- Is Robert Duvall's Character, Mason Hawk, Based on A Real person?
- How Was Coach Russell Able to Beat Bigger Teams?
- Is Frank Wynn's Demise in 12 Mighty Orphans Based on The True Story?
- Did A Rival Team Take Out One of The Mites' Star Players?
- Did The Mighty Mites Make It to The State Championship Game in Real Life?
- Is The Fort Worth Masonic Home For Orphans Still Open?
- Does Rusty Russell's Family Approve of The 12 Mighty Orphans Movie?
Yes. From 1919–1921, Russell had played end for Howard Payne University's football team in Brownwood, Texas. He was captain of the football and basketball teams at Howard Payne, and he also lettered in track.
Yes. The movie directed by Ty Roberts is based on the 2008 book Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football by sportswriter Jim Dent. He got the idea for the book after watching a documentary about Hardy Brown, a former orphan and player for the Mighty Mites team who went on to play in the NFL. Brown...
Yes. Nicknamed the Mighty Mites, the true story confirms that the inaugural team was only able to field 12 players, which meant that each player had to play both offense and defense. The real-life team is pictured below in black and white during a season when they had just over 12 players.
No, at least not directly. Duvall's character, Mason Hawk, is meant to be an amalgamation of the various donors who supported the school. On a side note, the 12 Mighty Orphans movie marks the first time that Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen have appeared onscreen together since 1979's Apocalypse Now.
After Coach Rusty Russell's physically small squad suffered a crushing defeat against a much bigger team, he adjusted his strategy and came up with new formations like the Wing T, which found the quarterback lining up behind the center. He also invented the spread offense, which requires the opposing team's defense to have to cover more of the fiel...
No. When it comes to Wayne Knight's character, the orphanage's abusive dean, Frank Wynn, the justice he receives in the movie is fictional. The real Frank Wynn drowned in the Trinity River while on a swimming excursion with some of the boys from the orphanage. Wynn hadn't realized how unpredictable the current had become after a recent rainstorm. W...
In the movie, Luther Scarborough (Lane Garrison), the villainous coach of Fort Worth Poly High School, instructs one of his larger players to take out the Mites' star athlete. He breaks Mites player Doug Lord's leg in a rather gruesome scene. The circumstance surrounding Doug Lord's injury in the movie is heavily fictionalized. In the book, tackle ...
Yes, but unlike the movie, this didn't happen in the team's first year. As stated in the previous question, Coach Russell and his Mighty Mites didn't make it to the Class A state championship until 1932, five years after the team's inaugural 1927 season. The championship game ended in a 0-0 tie with Corsicana High School winning on a 20-yard penetr...
No. The orphanage closed its doors in 2005 (New York Post) and the building was renovated in 2006. Otherwise, the filmmakers would have shot the movie there. Instead, the Texas Pythian Home, an orphanage 30 miles away in Weatherford, stood in for the Fort Worth Masonic Home. The Pythian Home opened in 1909 and still retained much of its original ch...
Yes. As of the movie's release in 2021, Rusty Russell's daughter, Betty Morton, was still alive and being cared for in a nursing home. She saw the movie several times, and she even hosted a screening with 80 of her friends. Director Ty Roberts, a native of Midland, Texas, said that Betty "was in tears" and couldn't believe how well the film capture...
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