"We are Marshall" opens Dec. 22nd

[underpants]

Website here
http://wearemarshall-themovie.warnerbros.com/

My Mom just got back from the big premier in Huntington. Even as an alum and booster club member and my high falutin' uncles she barely got a ticket to the dinner and one of the showings. Tickets were $20 or something and they raised $2 Million for local charities and Marshall scholarships.

All the local TV stations cut programming and went to the all day events on Tuesday. Oprah was there.... OPRAH in Huntington!!! as well "The Mathews" as they are called there now. Instead of the red carpet they rolled out the GREEN carpet (the team color).

Great story. Turns out that Red Dawson was at my uncle's tailgate party all the time. I knew who he was but he never had any air about him of being anything other than a guy at the ballgame. When this whole film thing started my mom told be about this and I said "THAT Red???" Yep that Red. Nicest guy you'd ever want to meet.

Anyway I am told that it was really good and yes it is a tear jerker.

Wikipedia has the whole of the plane crash and has spoilers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Marshall

My family had at least three direct links to people on the team (including that night) and my mom was telling me the story of how whole restaurants heard about it over the radio back in the kitchen and everyone just slowly walked out. No one said anything, no one paid, no one asked for payment they just sort of went home. JFK dying, the plane crash, and 9/11 everyone in that area knows exactly where they were when they heard about each one.


ON EDIT--- possible spoiler















The "We are Marshall" thing comes from the board of Governors meeting to decide if the football program should continue and outside the window a crowd gathered and started chanting WE ARE MARSHALL and they kept the team going.

I think....THINK.... my uncle is in the film but he isn't talking.

[seemunkee]

1. I've seen the ads and had no idea what it was about

thanks for the info.

[soleft]

2. Chad Pennington went to Marshall

Just, in case anyone wanted to know.

[jrandom421]

4. So did

Randy Moss and Byron Leftwich.

[flamingyouth]

3. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

[Saboburns]

5. Marshall Alum here

I saw WAM last week at a special showing up in Charleston. It is a very well made movie.

Quite a bit of tears in the audience, but a bunch of laughter too.

I know I may be a teensy bit biased here, but Huntington WV has the NICEST folk I've encountered.

Opens next Friday nationwide.

Check it out.

[underpants]

6. Yeah they really are

Amazingly nice.

LAnce Armstrong was there too (buddy of Maconahey's)

[xmas74]

7. I knew the story

and had planned on seeing this movie.

I'm one of those rare women who go to "sporting" movies and enjoy them. Make a movie about a sport and I'm there. Make it about a real event and it has a connection to athletics and I'll wait in line, ready to slip tissues to any guy pretending to have dirt in his eye.

[underpants]

8. Awwww

that's pretty nice of you.

[xmas74]

10. I'm just that kind of girl.

I know guys don't want to cry in public but during certain movies they will. (And then cover it up.)


And what is, IMO, the saddest of all? Pride of the Yankees. I've yet to meet a man who will pass that movie up when channelsurfing. And they always tear up toward the end.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. I knew the story. It was heartbreaking. I'm sure the movie will make me sob.