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Release Date
• USA: Dec 22, 2006
BoxOffice: $43.5M
Official Website:
We Are Marshall Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG for emotional thematic material, a crash scene, and mild language.
Running Time
2 hours, 4 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures, Thunder Road Productions, Legendary Pictures, Wonderland Sound and Vision
Studio Warner Bros.
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Other Titles
• Untitled Marshall College Football Project (2007)
• Untitled Marshall University Football Project
• We Are... Marshall (2006)
• We Are Marshall (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Tagline: From the ashes we rose
Plot: In November 1970, a plane carrying almost the entire Marshall University football team, its staff and fans crashed, killing 75 people in all and devastating the small town of Huntington, West Virginia. WE ARE MARSHALL, directed by McG (THE O.C., FASTLANE) tells the tragic true story of how the university and the citizens of Huntington rebuilt the football program and dealt with the loss of so many of their own. The university’s president, Donald Dedmon, earnestly portrayed by David Strathairn (GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK), hires the only willing coach to take on such a daunting task, Jack Lengyl (Matthew McConaughey). With the help of the lone Marshall football coach Red Dawson (Matthew Fox) and the three remaining players who weren’t on the plane, Coach Lengyl sets out to restructure Marshall’s team, and spirit. But for some in the community it’s still too soon, including Paul Griffen (Ian McShane) who lost his football-star son. They fear that moving on so quickly is disrespectful to those who died and to the loved ones who still mourn. The film emphasizes this issue, illustrating the struggle of that harrowing time at Marshall, and in college football history.Although WE ARE MARSHALL contains a similar theme to other sports movies, rising from adversity, the tragedy of
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