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Touchback
Former high school football star turned farmer and family man Scott Murphy seeks counsel from his longtime mentor when he gets a unique opportunity to revisit his youth and the injury that ended his football career.
30 May 1989, Levittown, New York, USA
10 September 1972, Detroit, Michigan, USA
February1992, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
26 March 2005, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
4 April 1950, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
19 January 1976, Noblesville, Indiana, USA
3 November 1973, Pequannock, New Jersey, USA
9 January 1961, Ohio, USA
18 August 1977, Midland, Texas, USA
11 January 1972, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
28 September 1983, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
16 July 1968, Wichita, Kansas, USA
17 March 1951, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
14 April 1938, San Diego, California, USA
April 16, 2012
Former jock gets second chance in uplifting (albeit cliched) sports drama.
April 13, 2012
Touchback may accurately be called cornball hokum by some, but it's nevertheless a well-made film filled with heart and soul (and Snake Plissken).
April 13, 2012
It's flawed but amiable, leading with its heart to tell a simple tale of refreshed consciousness, blended with a little touch of fantasy to give the material a comforting lift.
September 16, 2012
[I]t's not a bad film. It just needed a little trimming and a little work on the ending.
April 13, 2012
Ultimately it's too sentimental to have the desired emotional impact.
April 12, 2012
If George Bailey had been a high school football hero, It's a Wonderful Life might have been a little like Touchback.
September 07, 2012
Touchback isn't a bad movie, aside from the makeup effects that look like someone just shoved a pillow down Bryan Presley's shirt. It's just an unconvincing one.
April 19, 2012
Earnestness and obviousness compete for supremacy early on in Don Handfield's film, with the latter fully in front; happily, earnestness stages a comeback by the end.
April 12, 2012
Touchback takes a handoff from Peggy Sue Got Married and It's A Wonderful Life and runs it up the middle for a modest gain.
January 16, 2013
Touchback is a sweet family film that ultimately lacks enough insight into the main character's thought process as he struggles to make a decision that could change his life.
April 13, 2012
Are any of them alone reason enough to sit through two hours of warmed-over life lessons? Not particularly, but it should be said that the cast and crew have made a fair stride towards redeeming earnest low-budget filmmaking of this ilk...
April 16, 2012
A lightweight and overlong feel-good drama that plays like a mashup of It's a Wonderful Life and Friday Night Lights.
