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Despite the fact that this film is a totally unoriginal and predictable retread of a dozen `losers to winners' sports stories, it is so hysterically funny that I didn't even care. The story is thin at best. The NFL is having a players strike and scabs are called in to finish the season.
The Replacements (2000) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The film opens with Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a former star quarterback at Ohio State University who choked in his final college game and failed to succeed in the pros, doing his job cleaning the bottoms of peoples' boats.
Brooke Langton. Actress: The Replacements. A veteran of Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, Brooke Langton has been working in the film industry for 30 years.
Who needs expensive movie stars when a group of unknowns can light up the screen like this lot? On paper, it sounds like a failure - a cast comprising almost entirely of untrained and untested performers, set in working class Dublin, based on the novella by Roddy Doyle.
The Replacement: Directed by Óscar Aibar. With Ricardo Gómez, Victoria Luengo, Pere Ponce, Pol López. A young hardened police officer finds himself in the middle of the murder of the inspector he is now supposed to replace at a small sea town.
Written by Donnie Wahlberg, Mark Wahlberg, Dan Hartman and Amir 'MC Spice' Shakir. Performed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (as Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch) Courtesy of Interscope Records. Under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Takin' Care of Business.
The Replacements: Directed by Howard Deutch. With Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones. During a pro football strike, the owners hire substitute players.
The Comebacks: Directed by Tom Brady. With David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence. A comedy that spoofs inspirational sports movies, this movie is about an out-of-luck coach who drives a rag-tag bunch of college misfits towards the football championship.
Riley and her friends, Abbey and Tasumi, are trying to sell beef jerky for the Happy Hornet's Annual Beef Jerky Charity Fundraising Contest, which they lose every year to another troupe. Scoutleader Susan, leader of Riley's troupe, is such a stickler for the rules, they could never possibly win.
