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The unofficial rule provides for an athletic competition's premature conclusion if one team is ahead of the other by a certain number of points prior to game's end. The rule helps to avoid humiliating the losing team further.
Sep 14, 2002 · Towards the end, especially, the filmmakers start to pile up the heartbreaks and tragedies, one on top of the other, almost to epic proportions. One wonders how so much can happen in so short a time to so small a group of people.
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- Drama, Sport
- Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith
- 2002-09-14
Jan 8, 2003 · The introduction to a film review excerpt yesterday about ''The Slaughter Rule,'' which has reopened in New York after showing in a festival last year, misidentified the theater for the...
Jan 8, 2003 · Roy (Ryan Gosling) gets cut from his high school football team just days after his estranged father dies. For him, football is more than a proving ground. It is a promised escape from his lonely ...
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- Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith
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- Drama
The unofficial rule provides for an athletic competition's premature conclusion if one team is ahead of the other by a certain number of points prior to game's end. The rule helps to avoid humiliating the losing team further.
Movies. The Slaughter Rule. David Morse coaches small-town football star Ryan Gosling (pictured) in this film about the Platonic love between a fatherless boy and his closeted coach....
Jan 8, 2003 · Though some of Slaughter Rule's conclusions are overly tidy, the film's powerful meditation on masculinity gets much of its credibility and punch from the two leads, especially Morse, a reliable character actor who sinks his teeth into a role with heavy physical and psychological demands. Read More. By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW.