12 Mighty Orphans

Jun 18, 2021

1h 58m

★ 7.2

Based on the true story of the team that inspired a nation.

Overview

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

Genres

History

Drama

Action

Production Companies

Greenbelt Films

Santa Rita Film Co.

Sony Pictures Classics

12 Mighty Orphans Trailers

Cast

Rusty Russell

Luke Wilson

Juanita Russell

Vinessa Shaw

Frank Wynn

Wayne Knight

Doc Hall

Martin Sheen

Hardy Brown

Jake Austin Walker

Rodney Kidd

Scott Haze

Fairbanks

Levi Dylan

Snoggs

Jacob Lofland

Pop Boone

Rooster McConaughey

Remmert

King Orba

Amon Carter

Treat Williams

President Roosevelt

Larry Pine

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0.0

Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421

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0.0

The Sex Check

Jun 1, 1968

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5.7

While the Women Are Sleeping

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Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple.

8.0

The Resistance

Nov 10, 2011

　　In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. One of them is Xiaoyun, a peasant girl who fights with the Chinese resistance group. On her way to freedom she must fight against Japanese soldiers, ninjas, a killer geisha, Nazis, and the evil General of the Japanese imperial army.

7.0

Fourth Place

Apr 13, 2016

A former Asian Games record breaker and Olympic tryout, Kim Gwang-su, endures beatings, abuse, and constant ridicule from his swimming coach. To justify this abusive behavior, his coach constantly reminded Gwang-su - this is for your own good.

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7.0

The Day the Sun Rose

Nov 23, 1968

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.

7.9

In This Corner of the World

Nov 12, 2016

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

8.1

Call Me by Your Name

Jul 28, 2017

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

5.0

Mr. Airavata

Oct 1, 2015

A common farmer turns into an IAS police officer to help the poor and fight against corruption and finally taking the revenge of his murdered sister.