The Game of Their Lives (2005)
Directed by David Anspaugh
During the 1950 World Cup, the hastily assembled U.S. soccer team enters as heavy underdogs when matched up against the highest-ranked team in competition — England.
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After making Hoosiers, Anspaugh's directorial debut, the pair would re-team twice more on "true sports" stories: the feel-good weeper Rudy and the little seen 2005 drama, The Game of their Lives.
Not to be mistaken for an identically-titled documentary on the North Korean soccer team that set England ablaze in 1966, The Game of Their Lives reunites Hoosiers buddies David Anspaugh and Angelo Pizzo to exhaust the same well again (after Rudy--you know, the biggest surprise of Miracle is that Anspaugh and Pizzo weren't responsible), this time choosing unwisely to dig up an all-but-unknown World Cup soccer match between the U.S. and England in 1950.
Unfortunately, what we've got here is a glorified independent film from David Anspaugh, who directed both "Rudy" and "Hoosiers," but who really hasn't done anything of consequence since those films.
Directed by David Anspaugh and written by Angelo Pizzo, the dynamic duo that brought about "Hoosiers" and "Rudy," "The Game of Their Lives" is a tribute to the 1950 U.S. soccer team, a rag tag bunch that shocked the world by defeating England, the all around favorite, at the World Cup tournament.