Formulaic, tired, and for sure something that we have all seen before in a inspiring sports movie, The Longshots still has good intentions and the likeable presence of Ice Cube and upcoming star Keke Palmer. The film is inspired by the true story of an 11-year old girl from Illinois, who was the first girl to play quarterback in the Pop Warner national championship game.
The film takes place in Minden, Illinois, though the film was shot in Minden, Louisiana and follows the lonely middle school student of Jasmine (Keke Palmer). Minden is a tight knit small town that has hit an all time low financially ever since a local factory closed and left many of the community unemployed. Included as one of the factory’s lay offs is Jasmine uncle Curtis Plummer (Ice Cube), who spends his days moping, drinking, and carrying around a football to relieve his high school playing days. After Jasmine’s mother picks up more work to cover the expenses, she asks Curtis to watch after each afternoon, in which he reluctantly accepts. With the bookworm Jasmine and the lazy Curtis the two clash over everything, but find a similarity in each other once they start to throw the football around. Curtis teaches Jasmine how the throw like a poised quarterback within a few weeks and begs the local football coach (Matt Craven) to give her a try out despite being a girl. Thinking that Curtis is insane at first, Jasmine’s natural talent is quickly endeared by the coach as she works her way into being the starting quarterback in a all-male football world. Trials and tribulations ensue for Jasmine’s new talent as well as when the local media attention brings back her no-go father back to Minden.
No comments:
Post a Comment