Undefeated

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Undefeated

PG-13

2012

1h 53m

Documentary

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Since its founding in 1899, Manassas High School in North Memphis has never had a football team win a playoff game. In 2004, former high-school coach Bill Courtney offers to help turn the Manassas Tigers around. Nurturing his players' physical and emotional strengths, Courtney's efforts pay off in 2009, when the Tigers, led by their star player O.C., seem to have a chance to break their school's 110-year losing streak and finally win a playoff game.

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Critics Consensus

It covers familiar sports documentary territory, but Undefeated proves there are still powerful stories to be told on the high school gridiron.

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Henry Barnes

Guardian

Aug 2, 2012

3/5

All eyes are on the ball, while the future screams from the sidelines.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Aug 2, 2012

4/5

Undefeated works the whole macho-sentimental template so vigorously and well it's practically a reflexive response to cry foul, but you'd have to find heroic reserves of cynicism not to care at all about the precarious fortunes of these unformed bruisers.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

Aug 2, 2012

3/5

A watchable movie, no question. But perhaps best filed under guilty pleasures.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 26, 2020

3.5/4.0

Has just about everything you could possibly want from a feature documentary.

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Patrick Gamble

CineVue

Jan 31, 2019

4/5

The epitome of what a good sports documentary should be.

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Pat Padua

DCist

Aug 30, 2018

There can be power and comfort in cliché, and let's get this one out of the way: it's not about winning or losing, but how you play the game.

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 10, 2026

This movie is a *5* star Movie

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jul 7, 2025

Real footage in 1 hour and 53 minutes. Rated PG-13 for Some Language.

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Munkhjargal A

@RT28084692 Aug 1, 2024

This movie turned out to be a very good movie. It has become a work that has been greatly enjoyed by the audience. I think that the work was born because of the director's poor thinking. It turned out to be a movie that I liked very much. I would like to thank the director and actors.

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Bahad j

@RT27093708 Jul 31, 2024

In my opinion, I felt that the movie was very good, behind all this, the filmmaker was able to come up with the right festive details to congratulate the members of the behind-the-scenes team.

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Бавуу Э

@RT26109709 Jul 31, 2024

Since its founding in 1899, Manassas High School in North Memphis has never had a football team win a playoff game. In 2004, former high-school coach Bill Courtney offers to help turn the Manassas Tigers around. Nurturing his players' physical and emotional strengths, Courtney's efforts pay off in 2009, when the Tigers, led by their star player O.C., seem to have a chance to break their school's 110-year losing streak and finally win a playoff game.

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Geke g

@RT40239519 Jul 27, 2024

Sport is more than a game. Must-see

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Dan Lindsay

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T.J. Martin

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Ralph Zipper

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Nigel Sinclair

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Guy East

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Synopsis

Since its founding in 1899, Manassas High School in North Memphis has never had a football team win a playoff game. In 2004, former high-school coach Bill Courtney offers to help turn the Manassas Tigers around. Nurturing his players' physical and emotional strengths, Courtney's efforts pay off in 2009, when the Tigers, led by their star player O.C., seem to have a chance to break their school's 110-year losing streak and finally win a playoff game.

Director: Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin
Producer: Ed Cunningham, Glen Zipper, Seth Gordon, Dan Lindsay, Rich Middlemas
Distributor: Weinstein Co.
Rating: PG-13 (Some Language)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 17, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $561.1K
Runtime: 1h 53m

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