Hometown Legend (2002)

My family and I watched this film and came away extremely disappointed and frustrated. We were excited and optimistic upon learning that Jerry Jenkins directed it, but afterwards felt that we'd been lied to and betrayed. This film does NOT embrace godly Christian values. It's references to God and Christianity are flippant, fake, and disrespectful. The leadership examples are TERRIBLE. They would be disappointing even if they weren't presented as "Christian". Such examples and behavior is unacceptable and inappropriate, especially in adult leadership. Oh, and it's not completely family friendly, there was some decidedly inappropriate and unnecessary content in there. Oh and another thing...the football was terrible. Those that compared it to Remember the Titans need to watch Remember the Titans again. The football and acting are way better, the leadership examples are far more edifying, and the theme is far more deserving of your time. This is not an accurate or good representation of true Christianity. Shame on you, Mr. Jenkins, for not having the guts to take a strong and unashamed stand on what you claim to believe in. We expected better from you. That is not the God I worship, the kind of leaders I would respect, or the kind of movie I will watch again. If you're looking for a good movie that has strong Christian values, good leadership, and is thoroughly edifying for the ENTIRE family, I encourage you to rent the movie Facing the Giants. Don't waste your time on this.

Better off reading the book if you want the story.The football scenes looked like a bunch of JR High kids. Slow and sloppy.Also, realizing telling the whole story would have taken 4 hours at the pace of this movie, there was WAY TOO much left out and to the imagination.I absolutely LOVED the book, but was bored silly during the whole movie after the first 10 minutes which I admit did choke me up. But if I hadn't read the book even that would have bored me. I would still have thought it was a poor to only OK movie.

I was very impressed with the overall cleanliness of this film. Definitely something that the whole family can enjoy and nothing that a parent would have to cover anyone's eyes.This is an example of good Christian film making that will show that Christians can make a quality film.Their world view definitely comes out in this film. That view is hope!Keep up the good work.The film is up there in quality with Return of the Titans. It's a story about redemption, faith, forgiveness, love and team!Again, keep up the good work.Executive produced by one of the authors of the Left Behind Series.

Having read all the comments about Hometown Legend one thing that struck me was how diametrically opposed they were,its really bad or how impossibly good it was....... I'm afraid its not either of those though there's a lot to like in it,the acting and football scenes are excellent the music is good but as another reviewer has said there are just too many hokey cliques in the plot and some really stupid plot devices especially those involving the coach,football teams losing streak, school closing, we've seen it all before and done much better if it had been a true story i could have forgiven it all of this but in a drama there should at least be some attempt at an original thought.......a just above average film no worse no better