Balls Out
(2014)
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Balls Out
(2014)
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Jake Lacy | ... |
Caleb
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Nikki Reed | ... |
Meredith
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Kate McKinnon | ... | ||
Beck Bennett | ... |
Dick
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Nick Kocher | ... |
Grant
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Brian McElhaney | ... |
Chance
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Gabriel Luna | ... |
Vinnie
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Will Elliott | ... |
George
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Kirk C. Johnson | ... |
Ace
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Sam Eidson | ... |
Jimmy
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Nicholas Rutherford | ... |
Hank
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Jay Pharoah | ... |
Dan
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D.C. Pierson | ... |
Bill
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Michael Hogan | ... |
Mr. Albrecht
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Clint Howard | ... |
Philip
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With marriage, graduation, and the real world looming on the horizon, fifth year senior Caleb Fuller reassembles the ol' team of misfits for one last epic run in Intramural football.
Small-town college student has to choose between ambition and passion.
Iron rule of movie selection: always ignore the hot piece of ass on the cover. A few chuckles from this, but when I checked the time there were still 60 mins to go. Fcuk me.
In one scene a guy in a wheelchair delivers a sarcastic slow hand-clap, but keeps interrupting himself to roll the wheelchair forward - funny idea, but zero reaction from me. Plenty of parody of feel-good sports movies, channelling The Mean Machine with a touch of Ben Stiller. Actors, direction, jokes, editing all good - enough for a laugh-a-minute, but for all that input it just doesn't click.
How does a movie die on screen? I dunno - the mystery of comedy. I guess it comes down to the spirit of the thing, and the tongue-in-ass mockery of macho culture comes across as smug.
There was a hint of the pointlessness of college education, but they didn't go for the political slant.
Ignore the external reviews - this sadly is a fail.