Rudy (1993)
Since he was a little boy, Rudy Ruttinger has idolized the University of Notre Dame and its football team. However, he is a small boy who will inevitably grow up to be a small man. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
25 May 1917, Syracuse, New York, USA
30 January 1951, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
15 February 1966, Miami, Florida, USA
18 July 1963, Lima, Ohio, USA
17 October 1967, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 23, 2016
Corny and manipulative as it is, Rudy is a movie that makes you want to cheer -- if not for the real-life Rudy Ruettiger's public relations triumph, at least for the mythical Rudy's brave pursuit of an All-American dream.
February 18, 2012
Ideally, this movie should be seen as a double feature with Knute Rockne, All-American, that other great movie about Notre Dame football.
August 23, 2016
Underneath its rah-rah spirit, the PG-rated Rudy is straightforward enough to raise, albeit unintentionally, some troubling questions.
February 24, 2011
continues to make life seem a little better
March 26, 2007
[A] well-crafted piece of middle-American uplift.
August 23, 2016
The film is so effective because Rudy is never seen as mock-heroic, and he's never lifted toward unrealistic achievement. He simply does the very best he can.
June 24, 2006
Directed with composure, but no great fervour, the film's conspicuously uninterested in American football, and much concerned with testing the limits and the resilience of the American dream.
March 26, 2009
Rudy is one of those beating-the-odds tales that no one does better than Hollywood. A film that hits all the right emotional buttons, it's an intelligent, sentimental drama that lifts an audience to its feet cheering.
August 23, 2016
At times it is both overly sentimental and unintentionally funny.
January 02, 2011
Inspiring sports film about a real life underdog.
August 23, 2016
Anspaugh, whose Hoosiers showed he knows from feel-good movies, directs this story as if he were conducting Bolero, carefully building climax upon climax as the story spirals to an underdog triumph every bit as tearful as that of Rocky.
August 09, 2011
Well acted but overly familiar and sentimental sports tale of the underdog
