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12 Mighty Orphans

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  • Official Trailer

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

Cast

  • Luke Wilson
  • Vinessa Shaw
  • Wayne Knight
  • Jake Austin Walker
  • Robert Duvall
  • Martin Sheen
  • Kelly Frye
  • Treat Williams

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Amazing movie!

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Best performance by Luke Wilson

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Metacritic

30
Jun 17, 2021

12 Mighty Orphans is a plodding football drama in which the characters talk to one another like folksy social workers.

Metacritic review by Ben Kenigsberg
Ben Kenigsberg
The New York Times
50
Jun 15, 2021

12 Mighty Orphans tells the true story of a Depression-era high school football team improbably formed at a Texas orphanage, but the screenplay may as well have been invented from whole cloth, given its relentlessly formulaic nature.

Metacritic review by Mike D'Angelo
Mike D'Angelo
The A.V. Club
67
Jun 15, 2021

The delineation between good and evil maybe a bit too black-and-white throughout, but none of those aspects remove the potency of the lessons learned along the way.

Metacritic review by Jared Mobarak
Jared Mobarak
The Film Stage