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Rudy (1993)
The sport begins with the struggle, and the events begin as Rudy grew up in a steel factory town, where most people ended up working, but they wanted to play football in Notre Dame instead. There were only two problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were bad, he was half the size of the other players only. But he had the motivation and spirit of 5 people, and set his goal in mind when joining the team.
17 October 1967, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
23 August 1948, Joliet, Illinois, USA
3 June 1969
30 January 1951, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
26 January 1917, British Honduras
28 May 1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 December 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
23 February 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
18 August 1968, Goshen, Indiana, USA
February 18, 2012
Ideally, this movie should be seen as a double feature with Knute Rockne, All-American, that other great movie about Notre Dame football.January 02, 2011
Inspiring sports film about a real life underdog.February 24, 2011
continues to make life seem a little betterAugust 23, 2016
Corny and manipulative as it is, Rudy is a movie that makes you want to cheer -- if not for the real-life Rudy Ruettiger's public relations triumph, at least for the mythical Rudy's brave pursuit of an All-American dream.August 09, 2011
Well acted but overly familiar and sentimental sports tale of the underdogMarch 26, 2009
Rudy is one of those beating-the-odds tales that no one does better than Hollywood. A film that hits all the right emotional buttons, it's an intelligent, sentimental drama that lifts an audience to its feet cheering.August 23, 2016
At times it is both overly sentimental and unintentionally funny.August 23, 2016
Anspaugh, whose Hoosiers showed he knows from feel-good movies, directs this story as if he were conducting Bolero, carefully building climax upon climax as the story spirals to an underdog triumph every bit as tearful as that of Rocky.March 26, 2007
[A] well-crafted piece of middle-American uplift.June 24, 2006
Directed with composure, but no great fervour, the film's conspicuously uninterested in American football, and much concerned with testing the limits and the resilience of the American dream.August 23, 2016
Underneath its rah-rah spirit, the PG-rated Rudy is straightforward enough to raise, albeit unintentionally, some troubling questions.August 23, 2016
The film is so effective because Rudy is never seen as mock-heroic, and he's never lifted toward unrealistic achievement. He simply does the very best he can.