Rick Penning, the 17-year-old star player on his coach/father's rugby team, lands inside the Wasatch County Juvenile Detention Center following his second drunk driving conviction (and where his father leaves him to rot). Mistrust and dislike of the situation makes Rick anything but a model prisoner, but counselors at the center nonetheless hook him up with the Highland Rugby Team, a team renowned for its long string of successive state championships. Its coach, Larry Gelwix,... (Full plot summary below)
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Rick Penning, the 17-year-old star player on his coach/father's rugby team, lands inside the Wasatch County Juvenile Detention Center following his second drunk driving conviction (and where his father leaves him to rot). Mistrust and dislike of the situation makes Rick anything but a model prisoner, but counselors at the center nonetheless hook him up with the Highland Rugby Team, a team renowned for its long string of successive state championships. Its coach, Larry Gelwix, has a surprisingly unexpected philosophy: train boys to be champions in life first, then on the field. Rick doesn't buy into this, which could earn him some time in State Prison if he doesn't turn his life and attitude around by the time he turns 18.
Leave your thoughts about Forever Strong.
| DVDTalk.comBrian OrndorfCreated under the vague guise of "inspirational cinema," Strong is a sloppy, soggy pile of clichés, unable to sort itself out, grow a pair of cinematic cojones, and actually try to subvert some of its rancid formula. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanThe father-son relationship that bolts this rugby film together provides the textured backdrop for a sports film that engages |
| Common Sense MediaCharles CassadyUplifting jock drama is predictable but OK for older tweens. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. Means[Director Ryan] Little and cinematographer T.C. Christensen make you feel the heat in every scrum. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThere's something disheartening about seeing real-life stories and their inevitable complexities put through the Hollywood sausage machine and transformed into bland parables about a privileged, wayward young bucks redeemed by wise, infinitely patient mentors and the self-abnegating spirit of team sports. |
| Entertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzDespite all the macho posturing, the corny story is just as sappy as anything on Lifetime. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonThough director Ryan Little puts together a clean, professional package, at bottom this is a nearly-two-hour scrum of therapeutic direct encounters. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonThe performances are credible across the board, excessive sentimentality is largely avoided, and the sequences devoted to rough-and-tumble rugby match-ups are expertly shot and edited. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdonaThe movie is well shot and edited, the rugby scenes are enjoyable (if likely puzzling to the uninitiated) and "Strong's" earnestness excuses at least some of its predictability. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThis inspirational sports drama unfolds in such generic fashion that it feels contrived more often than it rings true. |
