12 Mighty Orphans

“Based on the true story of the team that inspired a nation.”

7.2(248)20211h 58m

HistoryDramaAction

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

Director

Ty Roberts

Revenue

$3.6M

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Cast

Luke Wilson

Rusty Russell

Vinessa Shaw

Juanita Russell

Wayne Knight

Frank Wynn

Martin Sheen

Doc Hall

Jake Austin Walker

Hardy Brown

Scott Haze

Rodney Kidd

Levi Dylan

Fairbanks

Jacob Lofland

Snoggs

Rooster McConaughey

Pop Boone

King Orba

Remmert

Treat Williams

Amon Carter

Larry Pine

President Roosevelt

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

Luke Wilson is quite effective here as a football coach (Rusty) who, with his teacher wife (Juanita) and his daughter arrive at a run down orphanage, home to 150 children of all ages abandoned by their parents in the midst of the Great Depression. Pretty quickly, they get the general idea that those in the establishment are considered more like the inmates of a prison, and those running it are at ...