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Code Breakers (2005)

Code Breakers poster
Directed by
Rod Holcomb
Genre
American football film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cheating scandal at West Point threatens the football team and its coach. The film follows the real life events and their consequences.

historicalseriousdramaticfocusedearnestrestrainedsomberunderstated

What happens

Code Breakers is a 2005 American sports drama television film directed by Rod Holcomb and written by G. Ross Parker, based on the 2000 non-fiction book A Return to Glory by Bill McWilliams. The film chronicles the real-life 1951 cheating scandal at the United States Military Academy, and the impact on its football team. It stars Zachery Ty Bryan, Jeff Roop, Jake Busey, Corey Sevier, Theo Rossi, Robin Dunne, Adam Grimes, Jude Ciccolella, Dan Petronijevic, Richard Zeppieri, and Scott Glenn as Coach Earl "Red" Blaik. The film aired on ESPN on December 10, 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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