Little Giants

Sports comedy about a junior American football team, made up of rejects from other teams, who manage to turn their fortunes around with a little help from professional players. When his daughter is not selected for the football team run by pro Kevin O’Shea, an outraged father decides to put a team together himself using all the kids rejected by O’Shea and enlisting some expert outside help., When a young girl is rejected by her football coach uncle, she gets her father to help form and train her own team to compete against them!, An unlikely group of misfits competes against the big teams in the American Football junior league. Enjoyable family fun with Rick Moranis., Sports comedy about a junior American football team made up of rejects from other teams who manage to turn their fortunes around with a little help from professional players. When his daughter is not selected for the football team run by pro Kevin O’Shea, an outraged father decides to put a team together himself using all the kids rejected by O’Shea and enlisting some expert outside help., Rick Moranis plays Danny, the petrol station schmo who takes action when his bigger, faster, better-looking brother humiliates Danny’s little girl. So the gas pumper calls up every kid who’s ever dropped a pass to make his own team. With some practice from the pros, they may just have a chance., A successful retired jock and his geeky younger brother play out their sibling rivalry by coaching rival little league football teams in this family comedy. Ed O’Neill plays the older brother, Kevin O’Shea, a former Heisman Trophy winner whose gridiron exploits have made him a local hero in his small Illinois hometown. Kevin is the almost unanimous choice to head up the town’s Pop Warner football team, and he happily builds an imposing team from the best local players. One of the few objectors is Kevin’s young brother Danny (Rick Moranis), an awkward, bespectacled gas station owner who empathizes with the kids rejected from the team, including his own athletic daughter Becky (Shawna Waldron). As revenge, Danny starts his own competing team of misfits, taking on the coaching duties himself. Naturally, despite the total ineptitude of Danny and his players, they eventually find themselves major underdogs in a climactic battle against Kevin’s well-trained juggernaut. Director Duwayne Dunham and a team of four screenwriters hit all the expected sports film conventions, throwing in a few innocent romantic subplots and cameos by real football players for good measure., Misfits form their own opposing team to an elite peewee football team, coached by the elite team coach’s brother., Children’s fare about feuding brothers (Rick Moranis, Ed O’Neill) who coach rival junior-league football teams. Becky: Shawna Waldron. John Madden: Himself. Karen: Mary Ellen Trainor. Nubie: Matthew McCurley. Patty: Susanna Thompson. Mike: Brian Haley. Duwayne Dunham directed.