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Gridiron Gang is a 2006 American biographical sports drama film directed by Phil Joanou, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, Kevin Dunn, Leon Rippy and L. Scott Caldwell. It is loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season.
Sep 15, 2006 · 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.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Phil Joanou
- 2006-09-15
Gridiron Gang is a 2006 American sports drama film directed by Phil Joanou, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell and Kevin Dunn. It is loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season.
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.
"Gridiron Gang" tells the uplifting story of detention camp probation officer, Sean Porter ("The Rock"), who creates a high-school-level football team from a ragtag group of dangerous teenage inmates as a means to teach them self-respect and social responsibility. He is joined in this experiment by co-worker, Malcolm Moore (Xzibit).
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- Dwayne Johnson
- Phil Joanou
Sep 15, 2006 · A counselor (The Rock) at a juvenile detention facility decides to turn the young inmates in his charge into a football team to give them a sense of self-respect and social responsibility, but he...
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- Crime, Drama, Action
- PG-13
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A 2006 American sports drama directed by Phil Joanou that has a youth detention counselor ( Dwayne Johnson) bringing together the teenagers there as a football to help with their self-esteem. The movie also stars Xzibit, Kevin Dunn, Leon Rippy, L. Scott Caldwell, Jade Yorker, Brandon Mychal Smith, Maurice Mc Rae, and Jurnee Smollett.
