2000 · comedy · sports
The Replacements
Directed by Howard Deutch1h 58m2000
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
Our read: The Replacements (2000) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / sports, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
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