Release Date

14 Dec, 2002

Runtime

01:33: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Victory is the prize, Pain is the price.

Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the school's good ol' boy network of rich, influential alumni by spiriting his new team away to a makeshift training base in a tiny town called Junction. There, Bryant runs the equivalent of a POW camp, brutalizing an oversized, underdeveloped bunch of rowdy young men and tormenting those who seek medical attention for cracked spines and deadly heat exhaustion. Berenger delivers a warts-and-all performance as the vulgar, monstrous, yet much-respected Bryant, and the direction by seasoned television vet Mike Robe is brisk and almost explosively charged. Whatever one thinks of Bryant's punishing methods, the film does not flinch from telling its powerful tale. --Tom Keogh

Original Title

The Junction Boys

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Actors

Tom Berenger

Bernard Curry

Ryan Kwanten

Fletcher Humphrys

Nick Tate

Ryan Johnson

Ewen Leslie

Crew

Jonathan Eskenas

Eric M. Bennett

James Dalthorp

Orly Adelson

Mike Robe

Michael O. Gallant

Mark Shapiro

Mike Robe

Stephen Andrich

Adam J. Sher

Sabrina Plisco

John H. Williams

Steve Dorff

Jim Dent