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From the award-winning producers of FLYWHEEL comes FACING THE GIANTS, a heartwarming, action-packed drama about
a high school football coach using faith to battle the giants of fear and failure.
Facing the Giants is the story of Grant Taylor (Alex Kendrick), a coach who has never led his
Shiloh Eagles to a winning season. Moreover, if six years of lackluster games have been dismal,
today tops everything: his star player is transferring to another school, a group of fathers
secretly are meeting to fire him as head coach, and he and his wife, Brooke (Shannen Fields) face infertility.
Help arrives not in the form of a star quarterback, but a visitor who urges Grant to lift his team goals
beyond the football field.
Fueled by renewed faith, Grant gives his players a new game plan, daring them
to believe in the impossible on and off the field. Then, against unbelievable odds, the Eagles step up to
their greatest test. And when faith and fear collide, only one is left standing.
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A relatively low-budget film produced in association with a Baptist church and school in Albany, Georgia hit the big screen this past
weekend at more than 440 theaters nationwide. Members of Sherwood Baptist Church and students at Sherwood
Christian Academy comprised a large portion of the movie's cast and crew. The almost all volunteer production
tells the story of a high school coach and football team who face impossible odds, but who learn that with God,
all things are possible.
“Not since Rocky have I seen a movie crowd so TOTALLY caught up in a film!" said
Savannah Christian Preparatory School (SCPS) Upper School Secretary and parent, Wendy Corbin.
"We laughed, cried and cheered for the home team! It was fantastic! Bring your tissues and your team spirit!”
UGA Coach Mark Richt plays a cameo role in the film. First-year Red Raider football player
Scotty Lewis, an SCPS 6th grader who owns a prized ball cap signed by Coach Richt, repeatedly extolled
Facing the Giants as “The best movie ever!”
In an interesting twist, the movie received a PG rating by the Motion Picture Association of America
for its explicit religious content. SCPS senior Krista Lewis loved the movie and responded simply and resolutely
after viewing the film, “I’m going to pray about everything from now on.”
Ultimately, Facing the Giants is a down home family dinner for the soul with heaping
platters of meaty plotlines,
delicious characters, and sweet desserts that leave you both fully satisfied and hungry for more.
The giants in this movie are as familiar as many of our own faces around the dinner table,
and the movie’s practical and poignant integration of scripture and Christianity feels as
natural sitting in a chair to eat. One might think a $100,000 film whose credits
include a Prayer Coordinator and an Eternal Security Guard, and whose lead character is a
full-time associate pastor, co-story writer and co-screenwriter, the editor, the director
and a co-producer might be homegrown hokey, but this is a creative, dramatic, funny, and inspiring
movie that will nourish your heart, mind and spirit.
Visiting Facing the Giants online at www.facingthegiants.com.
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