2006 · drama · history · sports
We Are Marshall
Directed by McG2h 4m2006
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Our read: We Are Marshall (2006) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · history · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle drama / history, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- redemptive
- tender
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