For every sharp one-liner about a pampered college football team that's "so corrupt it could use its yearbook photos as mug shots," there's a brain-numbing plot development that's straight out of a desperate sitcom.
Necessary Roughness
This gang of loners, loonies and losers are about to become something they've never been before... a team.
1991 · 1h 48m · PG-13
Comedy
Directed by
Stan Dragoti
Overview
When the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Director and cast
- Stan Dragoti Director
- Scott Bakula as Paul Blake
- Héctor Elizondo as Coach Ed Gennero
- Robert Loggia as Coach Wally Rig
- Harley Jane Kozak as Dr. Suzanne Carter
- Larry Miller as Dean Phillip Elias
- Sinbad as Andre Krimm
- Rob Schneider as Chuck Neiderman
- Jason Bateman as Jarvis Edison
- Fred Thompson as Carver Purcell
- Kathy Ireland as Lucy Draper
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The film itself is a genial, slight, entirely predictable football comedy, but it serves Bakula well.
As they say in football, pass.
The shameless commercialism and hypocrisy of big-time college football is a target as inviting as a receiver wide open in the end zone. But the muddled huddle that is Necessary Roughness is one long fumble strewn with offensive lines.
An amiable comedy.
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