The Junction Boys

The Junction Boys

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  • Genre(s): Drama, TV Movie
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Mike Robe
  • Cast(s): Tom Berenger, Bernard Curry, Ryan Kwanten, Fletcher Humphrys, Nick Tate See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 33min
  • Music: Steve Dorff
  • Award(s): Golden Reel 2003 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Christmas Under the Northern Lights, Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
  • Story:
    Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the school's good ol' boy network of rich, influential alumni by spiriting his new team away to a makeshift training base in a tiny town called Junction. There, Bryant runs the equivalent of a POW camp, brutalizing an oversized, underdeveloped bunch of rowdy young men and tormenting those who seek medical attention for cracked spines and deadly heat exhaustion. Berenger delivers a warts-and-all performance as the vulgar, monstrous, yet much-respected Bryant, and the direction by seasoned television vet Mike Robe is brisk and almost explosively charged. Whatever one thinks of Bryant's punishing methods, the film does not flinch from telling its powerful tale. --Tom Keogh
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STORY

Story
Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the school's good ol' boy network of rich, influential alumni by spiriting his new team away to a makeshift training base in a tiny town called Junction. There, Bryant runs the equivalent of a POW camp, brutalizing an oversized, underdeveloped bunch of rowdy young men and tormenting those who seek medical attention for cracked spines and deadly heat exhaustion. Berenger delivers a warts-and-all performance as the vulgar, monstrous, yet much-respected Bryant, and the direction by seasoned television vet Mike Robe is brisk and almost explosively charged. Whatever one thinks of Bryant's punishing methods, the film does not flinch from telling its powerful tale. --Tom Keogh

AWARDS

Nominations
Golden Reel Award

Best Sound Editing in Television Long Form Dialogue ADR | 2003

Best Sound Editing in Television Long Form Sound Effects Foley | 2003 | G. Michael

ESPY Award

Best Sports Movie | 2003

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Gene Stallings, a Junction Boy who later went on to coach at Texas A&M, in the NFL with with the St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals and then at Alabama (including coaching the Crimson Tide to their first national championship since Paul "Bear" Bryant's retirement and death in 1993), disputed the way that both the "The Junction Boys" book and movie portrayed Bryant. In a September 2006 interview with Tuscaloosa Magazine, Stallings had this to say: "Junction, Texas, was tough, but I didn't like the way the book...and movie portrayed Coach Bryant. He wasn't brutal; he was tough. That's a big difference. He wanted to bring us together, away from distractions, unite the team."

With the movie being filmed in Australia, virtually all of the young men playing prospective Aggie football players were Australian. Therefore, all of the Texas accents - as convincing as they might've been - were indeed fake.

While the various players featured in the film are fictional, they are based on actual Junction Boys. For example, Claude Gearhart (Ryan Kwanten) is based on Dennis Goehring, a guard who became known as a player who Bryant could not run off the team.

The Texas A&M Aggies' 1-9 season in 1954 immediately after the camp was the only losing season in Paul "Bear" Bryant's 38 years as a head coach.

ESPN Outside the Lines (2005) aired a companion special to the film, "The Real Junction Boys", hosted by Bob Ley and featuring real life Junction Boys Gene Stallings, Dennis Goehring, Billy Schroeder, Elwood Kettler and Henry Clark.

Popular Dialogues

"Bear Bryant: I didn't work my pecker raw at Maryland and Kentucky to sit up and die at this miserable cow college!"

"Bear Bryant: [as Hinshaw's broken arm is being mended] Serves you right for getting married, Hinshaw. All your football's runnin' out the end of your prick!"