“Gridiron Gang”A dedicated mentor takes a scruffy band of youths and whips them into a tight, disciplined sports team overnight. What a great idea for a new genre of inspirational flicks. Dwayne “The ...

"All inspiration, all the time" is the ethos of "Gridiron Gang," a crowd-pleasing, uplifting, feel-good and not-so-rare hybrid -- the sports/prison movie -- in which Los Angeles gangbangers are taught ...

When a sports movie says, "Based on a true story" what the hell does that mean? Because a movie is based on a true story doesn't mean it's a good story. On the other hand, there are movies that have ...

Sports movies about underdogs battling and clawing from behind to make it to the big game are as familiar as the old gang on Monday -- excuse me, Sunday -- Night Football. And “Gridiron Gang” is as ...

WeekendTotalWeekendTotalin millions of dollarsin millions of dollars1.Gridiron Gang (1)15.015.06. Invincible (4)3.950.92.The Black Dahlia (1)10.410.47.The Illusionist (5)3.823.33.Everyone's Hero ...

As an actor, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a very good wrestler. Johnson, who has neatly parlayed pretending to break heads in the World Wrestling Entertainment ring into a Hollywood career, stars as ...