Invincible From:Mark Wahlberg , Greg Kinnear , Elizabeth Banks (II) , Kevin Conway , Michael Rispoli , Team Marketing , Ericson Core , Buena Vista Home Entertainment ,
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Team Marketing
EAN: 0786936721027
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
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Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
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Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-12-19
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2006-08-25
Feature:
- Officially Licensed
- Highest Quality Recording
Product Description:
INVINCIBLE is the inspiring true story of Vince Papale, an ordinary guy who, against extraordinary odds, gets a one-in-a-gazillion shot at living every sports fan’s wildest fantasy. Like the city he lives in and his beloved hometown NFL team, the down-an-out Vince (Mark Wahlberg, THE ITALIAN JOB) has seen better days. But then the Philadelphia Eagles’ new coach Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) calls an unprecedented open tryout, and the 30-year-old bartender who never played college ball makes the cut. Now Vince needs every bit of his gritty, never-say-die attitude and enormous heart to survive in the high-stakes world of professional football. Heartfelt and triumphant, and filled with body-slamming NFL football action, INVINCIBLE will have you on your feet cheering for the scrappy underdog who helped his team rediscover its winning spirits, and in the process rallied a city when it needed it most.
Customer Reviews:
 Massive Disconnect, 2008-10-27
As a huge football fan--and because I very much remember, and watched, Vince Papale play--I so wanted to like INVINCIBLE. And what's not to like? A hometown, down-on-his-luck, thirtysomething ex-jock getting a shot to play in the NFL is mega-inspiring. . .or should be. But this film misses the mark, and fails to connect. Why?
Mark Wahlberg plays Papale as a silent, brooding man; when his wife leaves him, he sits in his empty apartment and broods; when the pressures of making the Philadelphia Eagles' roster mount, he sits in the stands and broods; he broods in the bar where he works; he broods on the stoops of his father's flat; he broods in his dorm room at training camp. Problem is, he's so aloof--to all the other characters, and to the audience--we never get to meet Vince Papale. Who is this guy? Why is he so emotion-less? Why won't he engage with. . .anyone? And then, during the film's closing credits, when we watch clips of the real Vince Papale playing football--an animated, engaging, enthusiastic Papale--we feel a massive disconnect between the real man and Wahlberg's portrayal. I sure wanted to get to know the guy in those clips; it definitely didn't seem like the same person who was sleepwalking through the film.
Speaking of animation, Coach Dick Vermeil was one of the most fired-up, enthusiastic coaches to ever roam an NFL sideline; yet even here the filmmakers give us a very somber, subdued portrayal (Greg Kinnear). And Elizabeth Banks, the mandatory romantic interest, is often downright obnoxious as an in-your-face New York Giant fan in Eagle-crazed Philadelphia. There was so much to like--and so much squandered--with the premise of INVINCIBLE. Huge cinematic disappointment.
--D. Mikels, Author, Walk-On
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