Gridiron Gang Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.

Plot

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Plot

"Gridiron Gang" tells the uplifting story of detention camp probation officer, Sean Porter ("The Rock"), who creates a high-school-level football team from a ragtag group of dangerous teenage inmates as a means to teach them self-respect and social responsibility. He is joined in this experiment by co-worker, Malcolm Moore (Xzibit). But Porter must first overcome almost universal resistance from the powers that be — his skeptical bosses and coaches at rival high schools who don't want their players mixing it up with convicted criminals on the football field.

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Gridiron Gang.

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  Dwayne Johnson

  Fast X: Part 2, Red One

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  Xzibit

  Code Name Geronimo, Hoodwinked

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  Danny Martinez

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  Maurice McRae

  Still Here

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  Mo

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  Trever O'Brien

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  Six Reasons

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  Jade Yorker

  Bomb the System

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  Robert Zepeda

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  Michael J. Pagan

  See No Evil

Crew Behind the Film

The Gridiron Gang behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Phil Joanou last directed The Veil. The film's writer Jeff Maguire last wrote Timeline.

Director

Phil Joanou

Screenwriter

Jeff Maguire

Producers

Neal H. Moritz
Lee Stanley
Shane Stanley

Production Details

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Key Facts

• Based on a true story about a group of teenagers at a juvenile detention center who gain confidence and self-respect when their counselor puts them on a football team. The story was made into a TV documentary of the same name in 1993 with Louis Gossett, Jr. as host. The film will be shot in Camp Kilpatrick, the Los Angeles County Probation Department facility where the story takes place.

Production Updates for Gridiron Gang

Dec 2004

Completed

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