The Mighty Macs (2011)
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Critic Consensus: Its heart is obviously in the right place, but The Mighty Macs is too blandly formulaic to transcend the genre's many clichés.
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as Cathy Rush
as Mother St. John
as Ed Rush
as Sister Sunday
as Rosemary Keenan
as Lizanne Caulfield
as Gayle Moore
as Trish Sharkey
as Colleen McCann
as Jen Galantino
as Mimi Malone
as Sister Sister
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Sometimes a film feels a bit too pat and yet is impossible to resist.
Without resorting to any trick plays, "The Mighty Macs" is the equivalent of high-top Converse All-Stars: timeless and effective, but perhaps not flashy enough for the kids at the mall.
The blandly inspirational sports flick "The Mighty Macs" is warm- spirited but all too obvious, even as the charms of its lead performer Carla Gugino help sell this familiar story.
There's something refreshingly unpushy about the movie and its beliefs, and Gugino seems to be sauntering through on her way to a different, spikier movie, the kind that is her stock in trade.
[It's] given such old-fashioned, kid-gloves treatment that its potential warmth and excitement caves under the weight of writer-producer-director Tim Chambers' good intentions.
Sports movies live and die by what takes place on the court or in the field, and this one feels rather rote.
Audience Reviews for The Mighty Macs
Trite and derivative.
Super Reviewer
Nice sports movie. Typical "root for the underdog" type, but well done. I have always liked Ellen Burstyn. She seems to really know how to pick decent movies to be in...this one is no exception.
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