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The Big Green

Play trailer Poster for The Big Green PG Released Sep 29, 1995 1h 39m Kids & Family Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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Fresh from England on a foreign exchange program, teacher Miss Anna (Olivia d'Abo) arrives in a small Texas town where the local students don't have much to be happy about. Determined to boost their spirits, Anna forms a soccer team, hoping the sport will help them out of their funk. But, since they've never played before, she has her work cut out for her. She hopes that, with her assistant coach, Sheriff Tom (Steve Guttenberg), she might have a chance to turn their lives around.
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Joey O'Bryan Austin Chronicle Rated: 0/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times In the right role, Olivia d'Abo would be irreplaceable. She has never found that role. Here, struggling gamely with the hopelessly predictable Big Green, she shows a quality that in another role, in another picture, could be luminous. Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Todd James Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Disney should be embarrassed, but since they own nearly every entertainment outlet known to man, who is to tell them? Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Sep 14, 2005 Full Review Jeanne Aufmuth Palo Alto Weekly Rated: 1/4 May 14, 2003 Full Review Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Exactly what you'd expect from a kid's soccer flick: lots of balls being kicked. Rated: 2/5 Jul 26, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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Dale R The underdog team must come together to win and learn some life lessons along the way. This type of movie has been done a few too many times, and this one is good, not great, just good. A teacher from England is teaching in a small Texas town for a semester and to motivate her students she forms them into a soccer team. Steve Guttenberg plays the county deputy sheriff that helps co-coach the soccer team. There is a love story between him and the teacher and also a love story between two of the students and neither is fleshed out very well. The DVD box cover and thumbnail for this movie is a little misleading as I thought it was going to be a screwball comedy, but there really isn't any screwball comedy in the film and it has some serious dramatic moments. I felt there were too many background stories of the characters that prevented any of them from developing into real story arcs. However, what was presented was interesting and well done. The reaction shots for the coaches and crowds felt generic and randomly added throughout the movie, like they weren’t really watching the game. I think there is enough good stuff here to recommend a single viewing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/07/24 Full Review Priyo W Very entertaining and very motivating movie the 0% rating is by the salty movie critics that always hates this type of movie genre Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/05/24 Full Review Jeffrey M The Big Green was a bad movie. I watched it just know and it was really bad. The Big Green was highly unrealistic. If that teacher did that in real life, something bad would happen to her. I practically agree with the audience for this movie. It was way too cheesy too. The actor, Bug Hall, the only movies I've watched and he has been in are really bad. The three movies he has been in that I watched are this movie, Little Rascals, and Honey We Shrunk Ourselves. Also The Big Green is not funny at all. It's supposed to be a comedy, but it is not really funny at all. What a bad movie. I give this a 47%. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/16/23 Full Review StephenPaul C LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 39 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated PG for Comic Violence, and Some Mild Language. Starring Steve Guttenberg as a sheriff in Austin, Texas, and Bug Hall as the soccer player who wins in shootouts in the final round of the Texas State elementary school soccer tournament. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/12/23 Full Review steve d Deeply unfunny, even by the standards of kid's sports comedies. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Jsaadp985 Is a great movie if you like soccer but it has some mid jokes Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/02/22 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Fresh from England on a foreign exchange program, teacher Miss Anna (Olivia d'Abo) arrives in a small Texas town where the local students don't have much to be happy about. Determined to boost their spirits, Anna forms a soccer team, hoping the sport will help them out of their funk. But, since they've never played before, she has her work cut out for her. She hopes that, with her assistant coach, Sheriff Tom (Steve Guttenberg), she might have a chance to turn their lives around.
Director
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Producer
Roger Birnbaum
Screenwriter
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Production Co
Caravan Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures
Rating
PG
Genre
Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 29, 1995, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 16, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$17.7M
Runtime
1h 39m
Sound Mix
Surround
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