Little Giants

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Little Giants

The movie cover for Little Giants.
Directed by Duwayne Dunham
Produced by Arne Schmidt
Written by James Ferguson
Robert Shallcross
Starring Rick Moranis
Ed O'Neill
Music by John Debney
Editing by Donn Cambern
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) October 14, 1994
Running time 107 min.
Language English
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Little Giants is a 1994 family comedy movie, which starred Rick Moranis and Ed O'Neill as brothers in a small Ohio town, coaching rival Pee-Wee Football teams.

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Danny O'Shea (Rick Moranis) has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, Kevin (Ed O'Neill), a Heisman Trophy winner. The brothers live in their hometown of Urbania, Ohio and Kevin coaches the local pee-wee football team. Danny's daughter, Becky ("Icebox"), (Shawna Waldron), is cut from Kevin's team because she's a girl, despite her being the best player. She convinces her dad to coach a pee-wee team of misfits, named "The Little Giants", and beat Kevin's team (The Pee-Wee Cowboys).

Danny accepts in an attempt to show Urbania that Kevin is not invincible, and that there is another O'Shea in town. Danny picks a team of players that have never been given a chance, and Kevin reminds him of the "one town, one team" rule. They have a playoff to determine who should be the "one team", with a wager. If Danny wins, he gets Kevin's Chevrolet dealership; if Kevin wins, he gets Danny's gas station. Facing a 21-point halftime defecit, the Little Giants are lifted by Danny's inspirational halftime speech and Becky's return to the team after a short stint as a cheerleader. In the game's closing seconds, the Little Giants stop Spike, the Cowboys' star halfback, on the goal line because, much to Kevin's chagrin, they know the play. The Little Giants win on the next play, a trick play known as "The Annexation of Puerto Rico".

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  • The jerseys worn by the Cowboys in the movie (the "double star" jerseys) were worn by the Dallas Cowboys late in the 1994 season, including that season's playoffs. The New York Giants adopted red jerseys similar to those worn by the Little Giants as an alternate jersey in 2004.
  • The number players that linebacker Becky "Icebox" O'Shea (#56) and quarterback Junior Floyd (#11) are the numbers of former Giants Lawrence Taylor and Phil Simms while Briggs (#8), Patterson (#22), and Murphy (#48) wear are those of now former Cowboys Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Daryl "Moose" Johnston respectively.
  • Kevin and Danny O'Shea were also the names of two brothers formerly in the National Hockey League
  • There is no town called Urbania in Ohio. However, there is an Urbana, Ohio, which is what the film's town was really named after. Urbana is north of Springfield and about 45 minutes west of Columbus.
  • Michael Nirenberg who played Jonathan Poe, Joshua Waitzkin's final opponent in Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), was originally cast for Devon Sawa's role but did not accept the role as he did not want to continue acting.
  • Sam Horrigan who plays Spike was a contestant on season 4 of Beauty and the Geek
  • Jon Paul Steuer, who plays Johnny, and Sam Horrigan, who plays Spike, were the two actors to portray Quentin Kelly in the sitcom Grace Under Fire.
  • Troy Simmons ("Hot Hands"), lives in North Carolina and played college football, not to be confused for Troy Simmons from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who played during the mid-80's. Hot Hands also graduated from West Brunswick High School in Brunswick County, NC in 2003.
  • Becky's nickname, "The Icebox," is a reference to William "The Refrigerator" Perry.


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