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- 2015
- PG
- Aviron Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2015
- PG
- Aviron Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Summary What Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock) wants most in the world is to play football. Deemed too small by the usual athletic standards, his father trains him hard, and Freddie brings a fight to the game that ultimately gets him noticed – by none other than legendary University of Texas coach Darrell Royal (Aaron Eckhart). Awarded a scholar...
Directed By: Angelo Pizzo
Written By: Jim Dent, Angelo Pizzo
- 2015
- PG
- Aviron Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2015
- PG
- Aviron Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
My All American
34
6.4
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Summary What Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock) wants most in the world is to play football. Deemed too small by the usual athletic standards, his father trains him hard, and Freddie brings a fight to the game that ultimately gets him noticed – by none other than legendary University of Texas coach Darrell Royal (Aaron Eckhart). Awarded a scholar...
Directed By: Angelo Pizzo
Written By: Jim Dent, Angelo Pizzo
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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6% Positive
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1 Review
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
34
6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
In the spirit of so many films created for the small screen, My All American works way too hard to make sure our heartstrings are pulled — and actually yanked hard from start to finish.
Angelo Pizzo knows inspirational sports drama. As the writer of “Hoosiers” and “Rudy,” Pizzo has made a career out of mining the genre and its themes of underdog determination and locker-room brotherhood. But he’s overmatched in his directing debut, the well-intentioned football biopic My All American.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.4
67% Positive
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13% Mixed
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20% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.4
67% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
13% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
20% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
An inspirational and intriguing story, the negative reviews definitely don't do it justice. I thought it nicely showed a character with true grit and strength and showed good performances. I found it refreshing that it payed homage to someone who worked hard plus provided a great example and role model which is especially needed nowadays. It's something the whole family can enjoy and has a great ending. Awesome story!
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True story about Freddie Steinmark, who played college football for the Texas Longhorns. Great adaption and screenplay with good performances from the actors involved. Showed the grit and substance that Freddie displayed as a player, but most of all as a person, setting examples for all who was involved. I had never heard of him till I saw the movie. It inspired me so much that I wanted to read more about him. Again a great movie and experience for me and would highly recommend the movie to others.
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All of the film's nuances are ultimately negated by the its relentless canonization of its subject.
Move over, "Rudy." Hit the showers, "Brian’s Song." There’s a new tearjerking true story of gridiron triumph, one that combines those male-weepie favorites in a way no focus group could possibly resist.
Based on fact but mired in cliches, My All-American pays respectful tribute to U. of Texas football legend Freddie Steinmark (1949-71) with the sort of on-the-nose sincerity that transforms biography into hagiography
My All American offers viewers a thoroughly shameless hero piece.
This is a movie that is confident in clean living, blinkered righteousness, and manly sentimentality, and it is shamed by some brief footage of the real Freddie at the end, an actual person whose story has been diminished by this slack, dawdling, offensive film.
While I can sense the passion, this movie's biggest flaw was spending too much time telling the viewer about how perfect Freddie is. It spends a lot of time telling you how nice he his, how smart he his, how reverent he is, how all the ladies like him, how good he his at football, and how determined he is to do what he believes is right. Individually, none of these are inherently bad traits to give to the average role model protagonist. But putting them all together into a single character makes Freddie unrelatable, uninspiring, and uninteresting. So much of this movie is about telling the viewer how good he his at football that there is very little conflict for the majority of the movie. By the time the protagonist was accepted into the university of Texas, I was actually rooting against the hero in the following football games. At least if he did lose, then there would be at least some possibility of a conflict to drive the plot.
It's roughly the last fifth of the movie where Freddie is given any challenge and the movie finally shows some redeemable qualities. However, by this point it was too late to hold up the entire film. If the movie spent much more time focusing on this struggle rather than constantly showing off Freddie outperforming his teammates, it might have been something worth recommending. But the execution is ultimately a below-average and forgettable sports drama.
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