At the beginning of "Gridiron Gang," Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's narration points out a grim truth about life in urban America.
September 20, 2006 (Press Release) --
At the beginning of "Gridiron Gang," Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's narration points out a grim truth about life in urban America: We live in a world where 75 percent of juvenile inmates eventually will return to prison -- or meet a violent and early death on the streets in their desperate neighborhoods where gang warfare constantly rages.
Based on the true story of probation officer Sean Porter and his colleague Malcolm Moore (and filmmaker Lee Stanley's earlier documentary of the same name), "Gridiron Gang" traces the groundbreaking first season when Porter and Moore did the seemingly impossible -- taking a bunch tough young inmates at California's Camp Kilpatrick, and turned them into a winning football team. Not just any football team, but one that would go out and compete against regular high school kids in a fully sanctioned league.
Most of those kids who comprised Porter's first team of "Mustangs" from Camp Kilpatrick came from the unforgiving mean streets of Los Angeles' South Central, having never known anything but abuse, constant poverty and unceasing gang violence.
Porter, played by Johnson, himself overcame a series of personal problems (largely due to a difficult relationship with his father) to become a high school football hero.
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Posted BY BILL ZWECKER
Based on the true story of probation officer Sean Porter and his colleague Malcolm Moore (and filmmaker Lee Stanley's earlier documentary of the same name), "Gridiron Gang" traces the groundbreaking first season when Porter and Moore did the seemingly impossible -- taking a bunch tough young inmates at California's Camp Kilpatrick, and turned them into a winning football team. Not just any football team, but one that would go out and compete against regular high school kids in a fully sanctioned league.
Most of those kids who comprised Porter's first team of "Mustangs" from Camp Kilpatrick came from the unforgiving mean streets of Los Angeles' South Central, having never known anything but abuse, constant poverty and unceasing gang violence.
Porter, played by Johnson, himself overcame a series of personal problems (largely due to a difficult relationship with his father) to become a high school football hero.
Source: http://search.msn.com
Posted BY BILL ZWECKER
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