The Replacements
The Replacements is a 2000 sports comedy film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Orlando Jones, Brooke Langton, Rhys Ifans, Jon Favreau, and Jack Warden in his last film appearance.
Plot
An unnamed (fictional) professional football league is hit with a players' strike with four games left in the season. Washington Sentinels owner Edward O'Neil calls a former coach of his, Jimmy McGinty, telling him that the league's going to finish the regular season with replacement players, and asks McGinty to return to coach the Sentinels the rest of the season, adding that winning three of the last four games will get the Sentinels into the playoffs. McGinty accepts on the condition that he can sign the players he wants without O'Neil's interference.
More details
| author | Vince McKewin |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Washington, D.C. |
| director | Howard Deutch |
| editor | Bud S. Smith Seth Flaum |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | all-american arrest beat entertain former coach game gloria gaynor i will survive inherit locker room nothing ohio state ohio state buckeyes football on the road picket line regular season san diego scab second chance strike strikebreaker sugar bowl tv reporter wash win |
| musicBy | John Debney |
| producer | Dylan Sellers |
| productionCompany | Bel Air Entertainment |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| recordedAt | Baltimore |
| theme | dance sports comedy |