Release Year: 2005 Rating: PG Duration: 101 minutes Director: David Anspaugh Producer: Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin Distributor: IFC Films
synopsis
In the summer of 1950, the most unlikely team ever to represent their nation gathered in Brazil for the first Soccer World Cup since World War II. Of the eleven men to take the field, five were Italian, two were Portuguese, one Haitian, one German, one Scot and one Irishman. They all wore blue shorts and white shirts crossed with a thick band of red. On their chests, they wore the eagle of the United States
cast
Gavin Rossdale as Stanley Mortenson Gerard Butler as Frank Borghi John Rhys-Davies as Bill Jeffrey Patrick Stewart as Dent McSkimming Wes Bentley as Walter Bahr
THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES is a film so old fashioned that it almost creaks. Said to be about "the greatest upset in World Cup history," the movie's over-dramatized narration speaks only in hyperbole. The movie is about one of the more obscure events in American sports history, but you wouldn't know it by listening to the voice-over. The single game in question is the U.S. soccer team's win in the first game against England in the 1950 World Cup games. The U.S. team was an underdog, but a single win in tournament play does not exactly justify the story's hype.
