The Junction Boys

Synopsis

Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the school's good ol' boy network of rich, influential alumni by spiriting his new team away to a makeshift training base in a tiny town called Junction. There, Bryant runs the equivalent of a POW camp, brutalizing an oversized, underdeveloped bunch of rowdy young men and tormenting those who seek medical attention for cracked spines and deadly heat exhaustion. Berenger delivers a warts-and-all performance as the vulgar, monstrous, yet much-respected Bryant, and the direction by seasoned television vet Mike Robe is brisk and almost explosively charged. Whatever one thinks of Bryant's punishing methods, the film does not flinch from telling its powerful tale. --Tom Keogh

Main Cast

Tom Berenger

Paul 'Bear' Bryant

Age : 74 | Popularity : 9%

Bernard Curry

Johnny Haynes

Age : 50 | Popularity : 11%

Ryan Kwanten

Claude Gearheart

Age : 47 | Popularity : 32%

Fletcher Humphrys

Skeet Keeler

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Nick Tate

Smokey Harper

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Ryan Johnson

Mike Hess

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ewen Leslie

Luke Mason

Age : 43 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	John H. Williams Michael O. Gallant
	Executive Producer	Orly Adelson Mark Shapiro James Dalthorp
	Co-Producer	Jonathan Eskenas Eric M. Bennett Adam J. Sher
Editing	Editor	Sabrina Plisco
Sound	Music	Steve Dorff
Directing	Director	Mike Robe
Writing	Writer	Mike Robe Jim Dent
Crew	Cinematography	Stephen Andrich
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