This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

terrible... so disappointed.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is a film about nothing. The idea of a screenplay is to have conflict to have some kind of goal that has to be achieved and obstacles standing in that way. But here this fact is just ignored until 30 minutes before the end of the movie! For 60 minutes it is just goodie two shoes. Our main character is loved by anybody and can do everything and is always succeeding. That is just very poor screenwriting.But wait something has to be said about the cast too because the story maybe the biggest problem but the cast is no help either. Aaron Eckhardt once a great talent does fine most of the time even though that isn't saying much because there is not a lot to do. When it comes to the heroic speeches he really struggles and the two times when we see him as an older version of his role his acting is cringe worthy.And then there is Finn Wittrock. In case you didn't realize he is pretty you get it told a hundred times in this film. I know him from nothing else so I just hope it is the role but what he does I can not call it acting. Yes, the character is flat as a piece of paper but he delivers even simple lines so wooden. Do yourself a favor and don't watch this movie. I had the pleasure of watching "Rudy" a few days earlier. Everything this movie does "Rudy" makes right.

An elderly Coach Royal (Aaron Eckhart) is being interviewed about his playing days. He starts recounting one of his player named Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock). Steinmark isn't an All-American player but he has an All-American heart. He is a hard-working, religious, and pious kid. He's the first to arrive and the last to leave. Linda Wheeler (Sarah Bolger) is his high school sweetheart. He plays for Royal's University of Texas Longhorns.Nothing really dramatic happens in the first two thirds of the movie. There are some cute stuff like his puppy love with Sarah Bolger. Wittrock isn't that charismatic and the character is very square. It's a very straight biopic. The writer should realize the meat of the story is the eventual expected medical issue. Honestly, I don't know anything about the true story. Since nothing happens for most of the movie, I assumed that some big tragedy happens in the climax. That's what happens in most of these movies and in this one, it's not that climatic.Even the twist is problematic. Essentially, Steinmark is too stubborn to go to a doctor. It's playing-thru-the-pain ethos on steroids. Even his refusing to use a wheelchair is problematic. He's willing to pop his stitches and ignore his doctor. There are ways to make this a compelling journey. It would make more emotional sense if people start pitying him. This could have been a great movie about the battle for his life. Instead, we're spending hours on the predictable football games.

This story is one that people will enjoy regardless of topic, dialogue, casting ,etc. My All American recounts facts about someone with inner courage to do their best in good and bad times. Freddie was a true spirit of inspiration. No one can dispute that. After watching I too felt touched by his accomplishments and his ability and fortitude to remain resolute until his death. There is not much on his family but I feel they too were proud of him and deeply felt his loss. He and his finance made plans to marry. He entered into a coma preventing their marriage. What a tragedy. Freddie is an example of how to live daily and follow your dreams. I wish I could have met him.

. . . in the current Docudrama, MY ALL AMER!CAN. A runt-like Colorado boy is the only player on his public high school football team attending mass daily. His dream is to play college ball at Notre Dame, like "The Gipper," and continue on to the Chicago Bears. He's going to have tons of babies with his high school sweetie on the side. When his only scholarship offer comes from an apparently Lily White University of Texas grid-iron squad, his new goal is to lead the Longhorns to an unprecedented Cotton Bowl match-up against the integrated Fighting Irish & Whatnots. Though MY ALL AMER!CAN does not overtly caution against making "pacts with the Devil," this 20-year-old runt DOES lead U-T to a national championship in his final game to set up the impossible long-shot of a few years back: U-T playing ND in the Cotton Bowl three weeks later. But as soon as that match-up is set, the under-sized over-achiever has a leg amputated at the hip, due to a baseball-sized cancerous tumor. This allows the U-T coach to pull a page from legendary Notre Dame master Knute Rockne, and plead for his team to "Win one for Freddie!" Most football fans and religious folks will be totally disillusioned by MY ALL AMER!CAN (unless they're up to the mental gymnastics being talked about in this week's sports sections, about how the "devout" families of Gridder Bart Starr and hockey great Gordie Howe see nothing wrong in filling these aging legends with stem cells from aborted babies to keep them going for a few more inches).