SummaryAfter a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it will take the guidance of their team chaplain (Milo Gibson) and a surrogate father figure (Laurence Fishburne) for them to realize what they can achieve when they stand ... Read More
Directed By:Todd Randall
Written By:John Collins, Chad Mitchell, Al Pickett, Hamid Torabpour
Under the Stadium Lights
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Jun 9, 2021
70
Under The Stadium Lights stands out because of its two veteran actors in Milo Gibson and Laurence Fishburne.
Jun 4, 2021
50
The movie's dialogue is clunky and the acting is uneven, which keeps the tone more preachy than dramatic.
Jun 2, 2021
40
Between the cardboard characterization, the heavy-handed emotional outbursts, the intrusive murder subplot, locker room morale-boosting speeches that should have stayed in the locker room, a strange lack of meaningful emotional beats, and the utter inability to tackle its white-savior subtext, Under the Stadium Lights is pee wee by comparison to Peter Berg's All-American.
Jun 3, 2021
30
Some sports movies build to inspirational speeches; Under the Stadium Lights treats platitudes as the main event.
Jun 3, 2021
25
A stultifying drama based on the 2009 season of the Abilene High Eagles, Lights suffers from sermonizing dialogue, amateurish performances, and an ugly racial blind spot disguised as white savior paternalism.
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