Big-hearted 12 Mighty Orphans is the Dirty Dozen of football films
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics / Mongrel MediaTwelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
Luke Wilson stars as coach Russell, a First World War veteran who motivates a team of misfits by strategic innovation – literally game-changing tactics – and by instilling in the boys a sense of self-esteem. Martin Sheen is ol’ Doc Hall, a flask-happy father figure. Robert Duvall makes an appearance, but his role as a friend of the orphanage was all but edited out of the film. Still, this marks the first time Sheen and Duvall have appeared together on screen since Francis Ford Coppola’sYou say apocalypse, and Sheen’s narrator/doctor says the Dust Bowl calamity of the 1930s “made hell on Earth look forgiving.
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