Rudy (film)

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Rudy

When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy
Directed by David Anspaugh
Produced by Cary Woods
Written by Angelo Pizzo
Starring Sean Astin
Jon Favreau
Ned Beatty
Greta Lind
Scott Benjaminson
Mary Ann Thebus
Charles S. Dutton
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography Oliver Wood
Editing by David Rosenbloom
Release date(s) October 13, 1993
Running time 116 minutes
Country USA
Language English
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Rudy is a 1993 film directed by David Anspaugh. It is an account of the life of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles. In 2005 "Rudy" was named one of the best 25 sports movies of the previous 25 years in two polls by ESPN (#24 by a panel of sports experts, and #4 by espn.com users) [1]

Taglines:

  • When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy.
  • Sometimes a winner is a dreamer who just won't quit.
  • It's not the size of the dog in the fight, It's the size of the fight in the dog.

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[edit] Main cast

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger grew up dreaming of playing football at the University of Notre Dame. While achieving some success with his local high school football team, Ruettiger lacked the grades and money to attend Notre Dame, and talent and physical size (Ruettiger was only 5'6" and 165 pounds) to play football for the Fighting Irish. Instead, he takes a job at the local steel mill where his father(a huge Notre Dame football fan) works and prepares to settle down. When his best friend Pete is killed in an explosion at the mill, Rudy decides to follow his dream of attending Notre Dame and playing college football for the Fighting Irish, and leaves for Notre Dame, against his father's warning that "Ruettigers don't belong at Notre Dame." Ruettiger fails to get admitted to Notre Dame, and instead goes to a small junior college, Holy Cross, hoping to qualify for a transfer to the university. During his final semester of eligibility transfer, he is granted admission to Notre Dame. After walking onto football practice tryouts, Ruettiger convinces coach Ara Parseghian to give him a spot on the football practice team, where Rudy exhibits more drive and desire than some of his big-name varsity teammates. Upon Dan Devine's installation as head coach, Ruettiger fears he will lose the chance to dress for a home game, an arrangement he had with Parseghian. Late in the season of 1975, his teammates, lead by team captain and All-American Roland Steele, rise to his defense, demanding to Devine that Rudy be allowed to suit up in their place (by throwing down their jerseys, one at a time, on top of Devine's desk) for the final game of the season. In the penultimate play of that game, Coach Devine is persuaded to insert Rudy (after all the players and later the fans chanted "Rudy... Rudy... Rudy...,") who sacks the opposing quarterback to end the game on the subsequent play. Rudy is carried off the field by his teammates, the last Notre Dame player to have such a distinction.

[edit] Memorable quotes

  • Fortune: You're five feet nothin'. 100 and nothin'. And you got hardly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you're also gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this lifetime, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody except yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.
  • Father Cavanaugh: Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard, incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and...I am not Him.
  • Rudy: [quoting Knute Rockne] We're gonna go inside, we're gonna go outside, inside and outside. We're gonna get 'em on the run boys and once we get 'em on the run we're gonna keep 'em on the run. And then we're gonna go go go go go go and we're not gonna stop til we get across that goal line! This is a team they say is...good; well I think we're better than them. They can't lick us. So what do you say men? [mimicking the team] Yeah
  • Rudy [reading his Notre Dame admissions letter on his final try]: Dear Mr. Ruettiger...pleased to inform you...you have been accepted to...[looking up, crying] Oh thank God.
  • Jaime O'Hara: It's the last practice of the season and this asshole thinks it's the Super Bowl!
    Ara Parseghian: You just summed up your entire, sorry career here in one sentence! If you had a tenth of the heart of Ruettiger's you coulda made All-American. As it is you just went from the third team to the prep team. Go on, get outta here. Get me another tailback.
  • Coach: Let me tell it to you as clean as I can. We have ninety-five players here, so accomplished as athletes in high school, we gave 'em full scholarships to the best football program in the country. NCAA regulations allow us to dress just sixty for home games; which means at least thirty-five scholarship players are gonna be watching the games from the stands. So if any of you has any fantasies about running out of that stadium tunnel with your gold helmet shining in the sun, you best leave them right here. Of you fifteen dreamers out there, maybe we'll keep one or two. My job is to basically beat the shit out of you for the next five days, and whoever is still standing at the end, maybe we'll use for our scout teams. You'll be running the opposition's plays, week in and week out. Your greatest value to us is we don't care whether you get hurt. Our first teamers are gonna pound on you like you're their worst enemy. Like what you hear so far? Any of you want to run home to Momma? Now's your chance. No? [to other coach] Joe, they're all yours.
  • Coach: You want on the team pretty bad?
    Rudy: You have no idea.
    Coach: You sure busted your balls out there.
    Rudy: Coach, I'll do anything.
    Coach: Now do you think you can give the same effort, day in and day out, for the next five months?
    Rudy: Sir, I have no doubt.
    Coach: If you do lighten up, one hair, I'll throw your butt off this team so fast you won't know what hit you.
    Rudy [after a slight pause]: Wait a minute, to be off the team that means I gotta be on the team first, right?
    Coach: Don't let me down, kid.
    Rudy: So does that mean I'm on the team?
    Coach: Yeah, kid, you're on the team!
    Rudy: [hugging him] Thank you!
    Coach: Hey hey hey! Go put some shoes on.
    Rudy: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA! ...UNH!
  • Roland Steele: I want Rudy to dress in my place coach. He deserves it.
    Dan Devine: Don't be ridiculous. Georgia Tech is one of the top offensive teams in the country. (Pause) You're an All-American and our captain; act like it.
    Roland Steele: [laying down his jersey] I believe I am.

(several other players follow, one at a time, dropping their jerseys on the coach's desk one by one)

  • Pete: Having dreams is what makes life tolerable.

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