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List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $21.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 13 October, 1993 DVD Release : 30 September, 2003 |
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Rudy (Deluxe Edition) description This 1993 film by David Anspaugh (Hoosiers) is slowly building a reputation as a minor highlight of '90s movies. Based on a true story, Rudy stars Sean Astin as Rudy Ruettiger, a blue-collar kid whose father (Ned Beatty) worships Notre Dame football but who would never dare to dream that any of his sons could be a part of the team. The film is entirely about Ruettiger's ceaseless if sometimes wavering commitment toward that goal, despite tremendous obstacles in physical stature, education requirements, the dismissiveness of coaches, poverty, his father's envy, and endless delays of one kind or another. This is the sort of film that looks back on a life and says the battle was its own reward, not the glory. Astin is very moving as a boy who becomes a man and watches his world change, often in unexpected ways, through painful determination. Great support from Beatty, Lili Taylor as a hometown girl, and Robert Prosky and Charles S. Dutton as two valuable mentors. --Tom Keogh |
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| Rudy' is all the things that a good sports movie should be. It's emotional, it's touching, it's realistic and it has some great sports action (not a lot, but enough)...but what makes Rudy' stand out above the rest is it's heart, and that heart is elevated through Sean Astin's wonderful performance. As Rudy, Sean shows us a boy with so much determination amidst so much rejection and lack of support. As a boy he always dreamed of playing for Notre Dame but when the time came his grades wouldn't allow it. No one but his best friend even believed in him, but when his best friend suffers an untimely death Rudy starts to believe in himself. He enrolls in a school close by in an attempt to raise his grades and get accepted into Notre Dame and when he eventually does so his family is pleased (for the most part) but they still knock him down when he proclaims his determination to make the football team. It's not that Rudy doesn't have the knowledge of the game or even the skill to play, he's just way to small to make any difference on the field. But with all his heart and soul on his sleeve he makes a difference, in the hearts of his teammates, his coach, his town and eventually his family. It's a truly heartwarming and tender film with a knock out performance by Astin. Great film for any sports buff, but for all you ladies out there wondering if this is just a guy flick, it's not. It's a movie about believing in yourself...and you'll love it if not for the fact you'll see your man cry. | |
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