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The Slaughter Rule
starring: Amy Adams (III), Melkon Andonian, David Cale, Juliana Clayton, Kim DeLong
directed by: Smith (II), Alex

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0829567020920
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 01, 2005
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 25846
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2002

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
While it may sound like some brutal warrior metaphor for life, this story of a high school boy facing up to the complexities of the adult world is a tender drama about troubled souls. Amiable, good-natured Roy (Ryan Gosling) keeps life at arm's length until renegade coach Gid (a paternal David Morse, who nurses his own emotional wounds) scouts him for a rural six-man football league--a rough, unforgiving game as much rugby as traditional gridiron action--and brings out his hibernating alpha-wolf. Roy also gets lessons in love from "older woman" Clea Duvall, but this is not your usual coming-of-age film. Set on the forever plain and under the magnificent sky of the Montana high desert, and photographed with the crispness of a winter morning, The Slaughter Rule offers an unsentimental portrait of a world in which winning is secondary to simply surviving till the end of the game. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Give me back my two hours
A total waste of time. The movie tries to evince some deep metaphor about euthanasia or something, or forgiveness or something, I don't know. It's nothing worth making a movie about, that's all I know.
It's also creepy how this movie seeks to portray a high school football coach who is a pediphiliac homosexual in a positive light. Ugh. Utterly, downright creepy. What's creepier are all the positive reviews here. Wow, this collapsing amoral culture is in a lot of trouble.
This movie didn't ... Read More

Rating:

- I'll watch any thing with Ryan Gosling in it.
This is a wonderful story that explores the relationship between high-school athletes and their coaches.
It held my interest until the end and I really appreciate movies that are not formulaic...this movie went below the surface.

Rating:

- Not great, but not awful.
The Slaughter Rule (Andrew and Alex Smith, 2002)

I'll watch Ryan Gosling in anything. I'll watch David Morse in anything. So when you put the two together, you're bound to get dynamite, right? Well, not really, but it's not for lack of trying on the parts of the two main characters. Roy Chutney (Gosling) is a football player with anger management issues who gets cut from the team after funding is dropped by the state. Gid Ferguson (Morse) is an ex-coach with a shady past who's trying to regain ... Read More

Rating:

- a few good elements but weak overall
**1/2 Despite the novelty of its setting, "The Slaughter Rule" is a fairly conventional coming-of-age tale about a boy who grows into manhood by becoming a member of a ragtag six-man football team. Roy is a teenager trapped in a small Montana town whose life has not been going any too well of late. His father, with whom he had only the most casual of relationships, has been discovered dead on a railroad track, a possible suicide victim. His mother, embittered by their divorce, sleeps around with countless ... Read More

Rating:

- Sundance Slaughters Cinema Standards
Sundance directors and screenplay writers constantly slaughter the rules of filmmaking in splendid style. THE SLAUGHTER RULE is no exception to the Sundance standard, however it slowly twists the rules before it nearly breaks them right off.

Set in the bleak and dreary high school years of a cold and frozen-ground Montana, this story of the strong-arm sport of six-man football and a young recruit who recklessly tries to control the often brutal game is clearly a sad satire of lives that many wouldn't ... Read More

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