Elizabeth Banks, Greg Kinnear, Kevin Conway
This is the true story of Vince Papale, who became a member of the Philadelphia Eagles football team as a 30-year-old in an open tryout. He is the oldest rookie to make an NFL team (excluding kickers)...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 19, 2006
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Stats: 5,053 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (5,053)
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October 19, 2008Pretty decent flick, especially considering I don't care about sports. The biggest problem I had w/ it is that everything's pretty predictable. I mean, hey, it's a Disney movie. :p
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October 19, 2008this is a solid flick. ive become a bit numb to sports movies over the years because of their predictable formulas, and although this followed many of those, i enjoyed it. it was shot well and entertained.
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July 3, 2008A pretty solid inspirational sports flick with Mark Wahlberg in the lead. He plays Philly's local hero Vince Papale who started out as a bartender and made his way through NFL. A true underdog story based on a true story. If it comes to sports in films, you'll never go wrong with...( read more)
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February 18, 2008Vince Papale is a thirty year old bartender from Philadelphia. Struggling to get by and dealing with his wife leaving him, Papale takes advice from his friends and tries out for the Philadelphia Eagles. Through remarkable odds, Papale makes the team thru grit and determination to...( read more)
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January 1, 2008Definetly one of the superior sport films....Great and inspiring...Good shit, i liked it
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October 15, 2009A true-life sports underdog film (Mark Wahlberg trying out for the Philadelphia Eagles when he's only ever played with his mates in a yard) and if you like that sort of thing, its a good one to look out for. As it's Disney, you know exactly what's going to happen and then it gra...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
August 25, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
August 25, 2006
Kyle Smith, The Movie Insider
The relaxed feel is what makes it so likable: This movie is grounded full review
August 25, 2006
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
As much as I wanted to root for Invincible, its protagonist comes across as neither ebullient nor vivacious. full review
August 25, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
There's a danger in reducing pictures like this to the sum of their lessons, at the expense of recognizing them as satisfying, if flawed, genre exercises. full review
August 25, 2006
Pete Hammond, Maxim
If this movie doesn't make you want to stand up and cheer you probably don't have a pulse. A rousing achievement on every level. full review
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February 10, 2007It could've been that I watched this after Blood Diamond, but I thought this movie was VERY, VERY, VERY MEDIOCRE. I honestly didn't find many things that were good about it. Their overuse of the orange filter to make the setting of the 1970s obvious, just pissed me off. It looked like crap and it didn't work overly well.
Also, mediocre performances, a shitty script, and typical boring directing, lead to a mediocre product. This isn't anything special and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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August 31, 2006movie was freakin awesome...great movie...highly recommend it...whether you like sports movies or not...good stuff
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August 28, 2006I've seen almost every sports underdog movie around, and IMO, Invincible ranks with the best.
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August 18, 2006I'm just gonna see the movie to see the preview for the Eragon movie haha lol but i dont know it looks ok im not a huge fan of sports movies bu what the hey to me its worth paying 5 bucks to see a preview for Eragon ;) oh and wahoo first to comment haha lol.
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