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- NECESSARY ROUGHNESS moves from one sports-movie cliché to another and revisits some of them several times, without ever finding a heart. The story and characters are so predictable and flat they're not even worth watching.
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Necessary Roughness is a 1991 American sports comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti. The film stars Scott Bakula, Héctor Elizondo, Robert Loggia, and Harley Jane Kozak. Co-stars include Larry Miller, Sinbad, Jason Bateman, Kathy Ireland, Rob Schneider, and Fred Dalton Thompson.
Sep 27, 1991 · I’ve seen versions of the plot of “Necessary Roughness” in almost every other movie ever made about an underdog sports team – but I fell for it again this time, because it was well done, and because the movie doesn’t try to pump itself up into more than it is, a good-humored entertainment.
Sep 27, 2016 · When it comes to sports movies, it would be hard to find one that follows the classic underdog formula better than Necessary Roughness, which was released 25 years ago this week. The college...
Necessary Roughness (1991) was a bad comedy/ drama that tried to hard on every level to be a serious film about college football. A lot of current and former superstar athletes appeared in this production during one of the film's comedic highlights.
Awful '90s football story has hard hits, profanity, clichés. Read Common Sense Media's Necessary Roughness review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Stan Dragoti
- Andrea Beach
- Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo
Necessary Roughness: Directed by Stan Dragoti. With Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak. Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.
TOP CRITIC. 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 ...
