Second String

Second String (2002)

American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place...

Erscheinungsdatum
2002-12-18
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (4)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 40 Min.
Genres
TV-Film, Komödie, Drama
Regie
Rob Lieberman

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Second String is a direct-to-TV film directed by Robert Lieberman which originally aired in 2002 on TNT. The plot is about the Buffalo Bills football team who find its first string out for a month after a food poisoning incident, leading the team's head coach, "Chuck Dichter", to hire an insurance salesman and former college quarterback named Dan Heller as the team's backup quarterback. Teri Polo also appeared as Heller's wife; Flutie, Mike Ditka, Chris Berman, Van Miller, Bills cornerback Donovan Greer and Ken "Pinto Ron" Johnson appear as themselves. The film received praise for having been shot in genuine stadiums.

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