12 Mighty Orphans
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.
- Revenue
- $3,615,193
- Production
- Greenbelt Films, Santa Rita Film Co., Sony Pictures Classics
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Cast
Luke Wilson
Rusty Russell
Vinessa Shaw
Juanita Russell
Wayne Knight
Frank Wynn
Martin Sheen
Doc Hall
Jake Austin Walker
Hardy Brown
Scott Haze
Rodney Kidd
Jacob Lofland
Snoggs
Rooster McConaughey
Pop Boone
King Orba
Remmert
Treat Williams
Amon Carter
Larry Pine
President Roosevelt
Ron White
Sheriff Red Wright
Gavin Warren
Young Rusty
Sampley Barinaga
Chicken
Natasha Bassett
Opal
Carlson Young
Annie
Lane Garrison
Luther Scarborough
Robert Duvall
Mason Hawk
Austin Robert Russell
Maywood
Lucy Faust
Wanda Sealy
Crew
- Director
- Ty Roberts
- Writers
- Kevin Meyer,Ty Roberts,Lane Garrison
- Cinematography
- David McFarland
- Composer
- Mark Orton
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CinemaSerf
January 24, 2023
Luke Wilson is quite effective here as a football coach (Rusty) who, with his teacher wife (Juanita) and his daughter arrive at a run down orphanage, home to 150 children of all ages abandoned by their parents in the midst of the Great Depression. Pretty quickly, they get the general idea that those in the establishment are considered more like the inmates of a prison, and those running it are at best indifferent, at worst ruthlessly exploitative of their charges. Rusty sets out to try and galvaโฆ