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Drama on February 24th, 2007 by Chad Everett
On November 14, 1970, as the Marshall Thundering Herd was returning from a football game at East Carolina University, and the chartered plane they were on clipped the trees just short of the runway and crashed, killing 75 people aboard, including most of the football team, the coach, the athletic director, and a number of prominent boosters from Huntington, West Virginia.
Couping this with being kicked out of their conference the year before due to a massive number of rule violations (a fact not exactly mentioned in the movie), school president Donald Dedmon (David Strathairn) considers indefinitely suspending the football program at Marshall. Some students convince him otherwise.
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Comedy on April 2nd, 2006 by Chad Everett
This is probably my least favorite movie of the series, but it’s growing on me. Probably because I’ve caught bits and pieces of it this weekend on some station or another (USA, I think), and those bits and pieces remind me of the parts of the series I like, without force-feeding me the whole thing, which reminds me why I don’t like the whole thing.
In this third go-round, Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are, as you may imagine by the title, getting married. As you may also surmise, simply because you’ve been paying attention previously, things probably aren’t going to go quite as expected along the way, and you’d be right, even if you hadn’t seen a single preview of the actual movie.
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