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Forever Strong (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Ryan Little

Written By:
David Pliler

Actors:
Gary Cole ..... Coach Larry Gelwix
Sean Faris ..... Rick Penning
Neal McDonough ..... Coach Richard Penning
Sean Astin ..... Marcus
Penn Badgley ..... Lars
Arielle Kebbel ..... Emily
Larry Bagby ..... Coach Cal
Britani Bateman ..... Renee Tate
Matthew Flynn Bellows ..... Highland player #1
Eliot Benjamin ..... Marty
Ivan R. Bird ..... Police Officer
Big Budah ..... Bingham
Jimmy Chunga ..... Max Griffin
Jeremy Earl ..... Sanchez
K. Danor Gerald ..... Coach JT
Carly Johnston ..... Reporter
Tyler Kain ..... Tammy
Max Kasch ..... Griggs
Carleigh King ..... Hotel Receptionist
John Kepa Kruse ..... Tumo
Lauren McKnight ..... Gina
Maclain Nelson ..... Scottish Captain
Michael J. Pagan ..... Kurt
Brian Peck ..... Colton McDonald
Shareece Pfeiffer ..... Marty's Girlfriend
Andrew Roach ..... Joey
William Rubio ..... Ernesto
Olesya Rulin ..... Emily's Friend
Junior Salt ..... Peeta
Irene Santiago ..... Reporter
Teddi Siddall ..... Cathy Gelwix
Emily Tyndall ..... Jamie
Julie Warner ..... Natalie Penning
Nathan West ..... Quentin

Synopsis:

Devised by committee, plotted by machine and acted on cruise control, "Forever Strong" stages an all-too-familiar teenage morality play on the churned earth of a high school rugby field in Salt Lake City. For Rick Penning (Sean Faris), that field is his arena to vent against a spineless mother (Julie Warner) and an angry coach and father (Neal McDonough). A belligerent player and all-round pill, Rick is in dire need of an attitude intervention. So when the time-honored convergence of beer, convertible and hot chick lands him in juvie, he is on the road to learning more than just how to clean a toilet and smuggle Vicodin. An After School Special that somehow sneaked into the multiplex, "Forever Strong" operates at the subbasement level of sports as therapy, smashing bodies and jerking tears at rigidly timed intervals. As Rick, under the moral tutelage of Coach Larry Gelwix (Gary Cole) and his former rivals, learns to replace drinking, drugs and women with prayer circles, community service and Maori chants, the virility of the scrum becomes a spiritual rite of passage.

Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick joins the team where he must adopt the grueling training schedule and unique code of conduct that Coach Gelwix enforces, or finish out the season behind bars. Egos clash as bitter competitors struggle to become a team. An unlikely brotherhood is formed with his Highland teammates, just as Rick is released from jail and sent back home to rejoin his former team, coached by his overbearing father. Heading into a faceoff with Highland at the National Championship, Rick is forced to choose where his loyalty lies.

A talented-but-troubled rugby player must play against the team his father coaches at the national championship.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 12 June, 2009.