The Replacements is an American sports comedy 2000 directed by Howard Deutch. It stars Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton, Jon Favreau and Jack Warden in what will be his last film appearance.
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Plot
A fictitious football league finds themselves exposed to a player attack with a season still to be completed. Washington Sentinels' owner Edward O'Neil called his former coach, Jimmy McGinty, tell McGinty that he and the other team will finish the last four games of the season with substitutes. O'Neil asked McGinty to train The Sentinels the rest of the season, along with the pressure of winning three of the last four games to make the playoffs. McGinty accepts, on condition that he will also be given the freedom to sign the player he wants with O'Neil not allowed to interfere.
With O'Neil accepting his request, McGinty builds his team from a variety of different players who he believes can be a winning team. As his quarterback, McGinty chose Shane Falco, a former All-American from Ohio State whose career was shattered after a horrendous Sugar Bowl game, and now lives in a houseboat near the Sentinel stadium. Falco initially refused, but McGinty convinced him, believing that Falco could still be the right player. The substitutes were greeted with their first training brutally by the attacking players, calling the replacement "scabs", and throwing eggs at them, and Falco, who arrived late, got his truck overturned. Chief cheerleader Annabelle Ferrell, who had to find a new cheerleader because the original apparently broke down, reluctantly hired strippers when the other trials got so bad. After practicing, Annabelle pushed Falco's home and surprised her with her vast football knowledge.
His first replacement game was against Detroit, and the team initially struggled to get along, causing the Sentinel to fall early. Falco tried to rally back the team, but in the last game, he panicked when he saw the delayed flash and the audible call, which fell from the winning goal. McGinty scolded Falco for what he did, telling him that "the winner always wants the ball when the game is in line." In a local bar, a few substitutes bemoaned their defeat, when some striking players, led by primadona quarterback Eddie Martel, arrived and mocked a replacement. When Falco defended Martel, there was a fight, which caused the substitutes to be arrested, but they built a bond in the process, dancing together in their cell before McGinity bailed them out. Annabelle meets Shane the next day, after hearing what's going on, and tells him that he's the first quarterback he's seen for a long time to be unselfish, and the connection starts to grow with both of them.
In the next match of The Sentinels against San Diego, they are left behind but can come together once again, and this time win, on a 65-yard field goal by their kicker, Welsh soccer player Nigel Gruff. Falco meets Annabelle again, where she runs the bar that her father used to have and admits that she grew up with football. After sharing a short conversation and drinking a beer together, they perfect their feelings for each other, sharing a deep kiss. The Sentinels almost lost their next game on the road against Phoenix, but won on some impossible drama.
When Sentinel returned to DC, O'Neil told McGinty that Eddie Martel had crossed the picket line, and showed that the entire championship team was the league, and subsequent opponents Sentinel, Dallas, had also crossed. O'Neil showed no confidence in Falco for defeating Dallas, and gave McGinity a clue that he could be fired if McGinty refused to start Martel. McGinty gave in and reluctantly told Falco, who then told his colleagues the same thing, demoralized the team. Falco was roasted by his teammates, but unable to face Annabelle after what happened, Falco left him standing for the planned date.
In the first half of the last important game, Martel clashed with a substitute, and also contently ignored every call made by McGinty, causing Sentinel to lag behind Dallas 17-0. The hometown fan, who initially hated the replacement, now boo Martel, after receiving Falco as their favorite. On the way to the locker room for the break, McGinty told a TV reporter that the team needed "heart" to come back and win, something Falco had previously said. Falco, watching this on television, back to the stadium, and McGinty soon get Martel for Falco. Angry Martel told Falco that he would never be known as a substitute. Falco says he can live with it and the rest of the team throws Martel out of the stadium. On the way back to the field, Falco finds Annabelle and apologizes to her, giving her another deep kiss in front of the crowd and other cheerleaders.
M & amp; stadium T Bank, then the PSI-Net Stadium, headquarters of the Baltimore Ravens, is used as the Sentinel stadium.
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Comparison with real occurrences
The film is loosely based on the 1987 NFL strike, specifically the Washington Redskins, who won all three substitute games without any of their regular players, going on to win the Super Bowl XXII at the end of the season. Although the film is the story of the substitutes, the Falco-Martel QB controversy is very similar to that experienced by the post-strike Redskins between Doug Williams and Jay Schroeder. Hackman will later serve as the narrator for the NFL Network America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions episode for the team.
The few-fumble touchdowns for the Sentinel against the Phoenix team were based on real-life Roller Holy between the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers in 1978. John Madden, who along with Pat Summerall played himself in the entire movie and "sent" Sentinels touchdown in detail, was Raiders head coach at the time of the Holy Roller game. The National Football League changed the rules for the NFL 1979 season only allowing players to fumble to advance the ball in fourth to bottom or in any game after a two-minute warning in half. However, because Shane Falco is a man who fumbles the ball at the start of the game and is the only one who promotes it, the game will be legal in real life.
Box office
The movie opened in third place at the North American box office earning $ 11,039,214 USD on its opening weekend, behind Space Cowboys and Hollow Man in the second week in a row in the top position. It eventually grossed $ 44 million domestically and $ 6 million internationally to over $ 50 million worldwide.
Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics. At Rotten Tomatoes, the film maintains a 40% approval rating from critics, a critical consensus says "Cliches and clear results make all the fun and excitement meaningless." On a similar site, Metacritic, the film has a 30/100 score.
Roger Ebert gave the film a 2/4 stars, writing that the film was "Slap-happy entertainment painted with wide sweep, two layers thick."
References
External links
- Substitute on IMDb
- The Replacements in AllMovie
- Substitute in the TCM Movie Database
- The Replacements in the American Film Movie Catalog
- Substitute in Rotten Tomatoes
- The Replacements in Box Office Mojo
- Substitutes on American football movies
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