12 Mighty Orphans

12 Mighty Orphans

Greenbelt Films etc.

June 11, 2021

Historical Drama, Sports Drama

DVD

D-

Depressing Depression era tale, with football!  Director Ty Roberts co-adapted Jim Dent's Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football, which would've been an unwieldy movie title.

The Final Countdown

The Final Countdown

United Artists

August 1, 1980

Drama

DVD
D

Apparently this goes sci-fi after the boring first quarter hour.  Don Taylor directed.

Family Attraction

Family Attraction
AFI
1998
Comedy
DVD
D+

Brian Hecker wrote and directed this unfunny seventeen-minute short about one of the last nuclear families in existence, although I kind of liked the visual style.  This is packaged on a Celebrating AFI collection.

Badlands

Badlands
Warner Bros.
October 13, 1973
Crime Drama, Historical Drama
DVD
D+

A boring couple meets in 1950s South Dakota and they go on a crime spree sometime after I tuned out.  Terence Malick wrote and directed.