metacritic.com: Facing the Giants

Facing the Giants

Starring James Blackwell, Bailey Cave, Shannen Fields, Tracy Goode, Alex Kendrick, Jim McBride, Tommy McBride, Jason McLeod, Steve Williams, Chris Willis, and Ray Wood

MPAA RATING: PG for some thematic elements

Samuel Goldwyn Films LLC
Drama
111 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 29, 2006

A new, action-packed, family-friendly drama about a high school football coach who draws up a new game plan for his team… and himself. In his six years of coaching, Grant Taylor has never had a winning season. Even the hope of a new season is squelched when the best player on his Shiloh Eagles decides to transfer schools. After losing their first three games of the season, the coach discovers a group of fathers are plotting to have him fired. Combined with pressures at home, Coach Taylor has lost hope in his battle against fear and failure. However, an unexpected challenge helps him find a purpose bigger than just victories. Daring to trust God to do the impossible, Coach Taylor and the Eagles discover how faith plays out on the field… and off. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

WRITTEN BY
Alex Kendrick
Stephen Kendrick

DIRECTED BY
Alex Kendrick

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

38 / 100

Critic Reviews

60	Los Angeles Times William Lobdell Facing the Giants, which despite its flaws is ultimately a sweet, sincere movie about Christian faith.
50	Variety For those who felt insufficiently uplifted by "Invincible" and "Gridiron Gang," here comes Facing the Giants, an aggressively inspirational drama about a born-again high school football coach.
42	Seattle Post-Intelligencer Like too many films of faith, it mixes its message, proclaiming that a life given over to God is a reward unto itself, and then handing over victories to its faithful like some overtime bonus.
20	Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt Bottomless sermonizing would have played better in Sunday school than on the big screen.

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