We Are Marshall (2006)
Directed by McG
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
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In the sports movie hierarchy, The Blind Side falls somewhere between We Are Marshall and Friday Night Lights.
The screenplay by Jamie Linden ( We Are Marshall ) is based on the bestselling novel by Nicholas Sparks.
Indeed, much is made in the production notes about how Hallström and screenwriter Jamie Linden (the solid "We Are Marshall") wanted to stay away from the overly sentimental, which is Hollywood code for "schmaltzy."
His direction of Jamie Linden's ("We Are Marshall") adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks (!) novel borders on lethargy.
If only screenwriter Jamie Linden (“We Are Marshall’’) could write dialogue half as good as that.
…war injuries, mental disabilities, terminal illnesses, just to name a few?but director Lasse Hallstrom (2005's " An Unfinished Life ") and screenwriter Jamie Linden (2006's " We Are Marshall ") have changed for the worse some of the key details from the book, turning a meaningful and bittersweet tale of love gained and lost into an episodic, underdeveloped, typical romance with muddily conceived plot turns.
Another mystery: the choice of fairly new screenwriter Jamie Linden (We Are Marshall) who, per the production notes "initially passed on the project, not having had the experience of (and not being entirely comfortable with) writing a love story."