We are marshall movie review

A movie that needs no dramatization - was accurate

I spent many summers with my aunt, uncle and cousin in Huntington, WV and was at the University of Virginia in Nov 1970 when the plane carrying most of Marshall's football team crashed. It crashed just a few miles from their home.

While my school was 300 miles from Huntington many weekends I'd make the trip to Huntington to see my aunt & uncle.

Just a week before the accident my uncle and I saw one of their games - a home game playing Kent State - and it was such an eerie feeling for me to know that virtually everyone I saw on the field that day was gone in an instant.

I don't think it would be possible for any director to truly capture the level of grief in Huntington at that time, but this movie gave a pretty good glimpse inside.

While this movie is about the rebuilding of a football team that all but vanished, the greater message to me is how they kept building through their intense grief, and why that effort was important.

Almost everyone in my circle knew someone - or had a loved one - killed. A poster mentioned that some in Huntington don't like the film - everyone I know - including my cousin, felt that it really captured the time.

The Huntington Quarterly devoted an

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STARRING

Matthew McConaughey, Book Fox, Painter Strathairn, Ian McShane, Kate Mara, Kimberly Williams-Paisley

DIRECTOR

McG

SCREENPLAY

Jamie Linden

MPAA RATING

Rated PG

RUNNING TIME

120 Mins.

DISTRIBUTED BY
Filmmaker Brothers

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