The Replacements
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Team Marketing
EAN: 9780790751542
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790751542
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 28, 2000
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 3534
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players' strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the 'scab' who replaces the star QB.
Amazon.com:
The Replacements manages to be both completely formulaic and yet immensely enjoyable. When a professional football players' strike happens, the owner of a fictitious team, the Washington Sentinels, commissions maverick coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to pull together a team. McGinty selects a collection of talented oddballs--a Welsh soccer player, a sumo wrestler, a couple of professional bodyguards--with athletic pasts, figuring that if it doesn't work out as a game, it might as well be a circus. To lead the team, he finds Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a once-promising player who had a disastrous championship game. Naturally, despite squabbling and bickering, a roguish camaraderie develops through a mixture of racial infighting, harassment from the striking professionals, and a big bar brawl--after which they're all thrown in jail and perform the most improbable impromptu dance number ever committed to film. The mixture of cheerfully cliché plot mechanics, an engaging collection of supporting actors (including Orlando Jones, Rhys Ifans from Notting Hill, and Jon Favreau from Swingers), and sheer ridiculousness somehow combines to make The Replacements completely entertaining. Reeves is somehow turning into a pleasant leading man; he even emotes convincingly in this movie. And let's face it, Gene Hackman is quite possibly the greatest actor alive, able to speak the trashiest dialogue with fierce conviction. Plus, just to prove that the tight pants and close huddles of football are heterosexual, there are many, many shots of cheerleaders going through stripper-inspired routines. --Bret Fetzer
Average Rating: 
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- very good movieI really liked this film and I would recomend this to any fan of the actors or actresses in the film. ... Read More
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- not the real moviieThis is one of our favorite all time movies - except not the version that came from amazon this fall and ... Read More
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- The ReplacementsDVD was in very good condition when it arrived, was well packaged and prompt. A++++++++
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- Coach from Hoosiers + Plot from Major League = Good sports movie?When Gene Hackman is in a sports movie, it's impossible to see him as anyone other than coach Norman Dale ... Read More
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- Great Cast-Great Movie!The Replacements brings to the screen the story of a substitute squad called in to get the Washington Sentinels ... Read More
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