12 Mighty Orphans

The kind of film that just makes you feel good. It's as much about life as it is about football and the importance of chosen family, self esteem and solid values The film does have an Indy look and it isn't slick, but it's definitely worth the time. A good buddy, date or family movie.

This should be the first movie you take your kids to post-pandamic/now. It's inspirational and based on a true story. Orphans in Texas in the dust bowl time period when many orphanages were transforming from work camps to more educational oriented institutions bring in a transformative teacher and football coach to field the orphanage's first football team.

This is one of those movies that you can tell what you are getting by the poster and the tittle. Some orphaned young men in the 1930's are waiting to come of age. They have little prospects, no family and are too old to realistically be adopted. In a time of high morals and little else the boys have a bleak future. Until Rusty Russell and his wife turn up and see if they can give them a future through American football. This has great performances, is well produced and has all the heart warming elements you would expect from a story of this type. An excellent Sunday afternoon watch - hang around for the real life bio's at the credits.

Love the story this told about the masonic home in Texas. The actors all did a fine job & drew me into the characters. We really loved that they showed the real people at the end & which actor played them in the film. It had many great messages within that my daughter enjoyed so we watched it a second time. All around enjoyable movie,

I love America's rural stories. I think Martin Sheen loves it too. He took on the role of producer to make a movie about this story he heard when he was younger. Unfortunately, the whole movie doesn't move away from the "New man comes to town and changes everything" cliche.