REPLACEMENTS (DVD/16X9/WS/1.85:1/2 DOCUMENTARIES/DIR COMM/CAST&DIR FILMOGRA

• Specifications
• Product Reviews
• Similar Products
• ANTOnline Reviews

Product Description

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

• Actors: James Black, Brett Cullen, Keith David, Jon Favreau, Greg Goossen
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• ISBN: 0790751542
• Language (Original Language): English
• Language (Subtitled): English
• Language (Subtitled): French
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2000-11-28
• Running Time: 118 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 2000

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-06-13 Great Movie Even though it's a sports movie, it is great. Received in quick time. Was pleased with the product, and delivery.

Reviewed on 2008-06-13 Don't Know Why I Like It, But I Do This movie is one of a rarity for me: a cliche that works. The plot is as old as time--a bunch of misfits recruited to pull off something incredible, in this case a playoff appearance for the hometown football team after all the regulars go on strike. The characters are the same, the plot is the same, and the ending is so obvious even Stevie Wonder could see it coming. But for some reason I still like it. I know this isn't exactly a ringing endorsement, but check it out anyway--you might be pleasantly surprised.

Reviewed on 2008-01-23 Christmas Gift this product was great! The price was great (although I had to pay an arm and a leg for next day shipping to get it in time for christmas)

Reviewed on 2008-01-19 The Replacements (DVD) This is a great movie, very entertaining. Was delivered on time during the xmas rush. As advertised!

Reviewed on 2008-01-19 Classic sport/comedy movie This movie is one of our favorites. My son and I are movie quoters and this one is a classic. It gets funnier and funnier evertime we watch it. It has all - sports, comedy, romance.

Similar Products

ARE YOU BEING SERVED V03 (DVD) $15.38 Episodes: German Week, No Sale, New Look. On sale this week! A few less than stellar ideas for perking up sales. In these three episodes, Grace Brother's tries a German Week (Mr. Humphries in lederho...

BRAINIACS.COM (DVD) $4.86 What can Matt, an 11-year-old boy, do when his father is too obsessed with work to spend quality time with his family? A forgotten school project turns into sudden inspiration for Matt--if he buys hi...

SOUL FOOD (1997) / (WS DIR SUB SEN) - SOUL FOOD (1997) / (WS DIR SUB SEN) $6.35 Sunday dinner at Mothers Joe's (Irma P. Hall) is a mouth watering, 40 year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), love and laughs are always on the menu, despite...