Thanks for the replies guys. It's nice to hear that people outside of the area who saw it liked it.
And bignateyk, it's not really a football movie, but it is a true story. It's more about the different ways individuals and a small town deal with grief and come back from a tragedy like that. And I liked that they didn't stray from the real story much. The only things they added were what happened outside of the Board of Directors meeting and they changed a short pass to a long one in one scene. They didn't have to add anything to dramatize the story. For example, the cheerleader in the film lost her fiance, but one real life cheerleader lost her fiance and both her parents in the crash as well.
I thought Matthew McConaughey did a good job being very un-Matthew McConaughey-like in the movie, but Matthew Fox ("Lost") was the real star of the film. It was a couple of his scenes and one of the actor that played Nate Ruffin that got to me.
