The Junction Boys (2002)

12/14/2002 (US) • 1h 33m

Drama, TV Movie

Victory is the prize, Pain is the price.

Overview

Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the school's good ol' boy network of rich, influential alumni by spiriting his new team away to a makeshift training base in a tiny town called Junction. There, Bryant runs the equivalent of a POW camp, brutalizing an oversized, underdeveloped bunch of rowdy young men and tormenting those who seek medical attention for cracked spines and deadly heat exhaustion. Berenger delivers a warts-and-all performance as the vulgar, monstrous, yet much-respected Bryant, and the direction by seasoned television vet Mike Robe is brisk and almost explosively charged. Whatever one thinks of Bryant's punishing methods, the film does not flinch from telling its powerful tale. --Tom Keogh

Top Billed Cast

Tom Berenger

Paul 'Bear' Bryant

Bernard Curry

Johnny Haynes

Ryan Kwanten

Claude Gearheart

Fletcher Humphrys

Skeet Keeler

Nick Tate

Smokey Harper

Ryan Johnson

Mike Hess

Ewen Leslie

Luke Mason


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

sports

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