Rotten
Director David Anspaugh has a skilled touch, but there's just not that much drama to film. This is a very competent, very predictable sports film.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
The Game of Their Lives
America's finest moment in the world's greatest game.
2005 · 1h 41m · PG
Drama
Directed by
David Anspaugh
Overview
During the 1950 World Cup, the hastily assembled U.S. soccer team enters as heavy underdogs when matched up against the highest-ranked team in competition — England.
Director and cast
- David Anspaugh Director
- Gerard Butler as Frank Borghi
- Wes Bentley as Walter Bahr
- Gavin Rossdale as Stanley Mortensen
- Costas Mandylor as Charlie 'Gloves' Columbo
- Louis Mandylor as Gino Pariani
- Zachery Ty Bryan as Harry Keough
- Jimmy Jean-Louis as Joe Gaetjens
- Patrick Stewart as Older Dent McSkimming
- Terry Kinney as Dent McSkimming
- Richard Jenik as Joe Maca
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
26%
Tomatometer
Rotten
...disappointingly mediocre...
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
...lacks even a penalty kick's worth of tension and is paradoxically inert for a movie about guys running up and down the pitch for the glory of the U.S.
Robert Koehler, Variety
Fresh
These guys give a sport that is virtually nameless in the movies a good name in this one.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Rotten
It's difficult to muster dislike for The Game of Their Lives, which is reasonably interesting, but it needed more grit and inspiration than this straightforward account can provide.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
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