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Facing the Giants

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A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2006-09-29

Runtime: 111 mins

Director: Alex Kendrick

Writer: Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama

Original title: Facing the Giants

Production Companies: Carmel Entertainment Group, Destination Films, Provident Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sherwood Pictures, Carmel Entertainment, Kendrick Brothers

Production Countries: United States of America

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Terrible Christian propaganda movie. The story is ridiculous, the jokes are bad. We nervously laughed while watching it because we could not believe it. A sort of gross USA caricature.
2013-01-02

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