Go Tigers!
by Kenneth A. Carlson
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Actor: Adam Michael Gayheart, Danny Studer, Dave Irwin, Ellery Moore, Joe PaternoDirector: Kenneth A. Carlson
Brand: Team Marketing
Cinematographer: Curt Apduhan
Producer: Kenneth A. Carlson
Writer: Kenneth A. Carlson
Editor: Jeff Werner
Producer: Sidney Sherman
Producer: Todd Robinson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Video Group
Product features:
- Officially Licensed
- Highest Quality Recording
DVD Reviews of Go Tigers!
DVD Review: Grrrrrrrrr 8
Summary: 5 Stars
Go Tigers! is a wonderful, and wonderfully deceptive, movie. When viewed casually it flies by like an NFL highlights reel, slick, glossy, beautifully photographed, and expertly edited. These are universally familiar images, the great touchdown pass, the banks of lights, players banging into each other in testosterone-fueled euphoric celebration. Then you stop to remember. This is a documentary about high school football, and even more importantly, precisely what high school football means in Massillon, Ohio. (Turns out it determines the future of the school system!)
Go Tigers! is the brainchild of Ken Carlson, he wrote, directed, and produced - and, as luck would have it, he's from Massillon. This makes his achievement even more remarkable because the one attribute that dominates this movie is how even-handed and fair it is.
Movies in this genre fall into two groups, either they are love-struck anthems honoring the virtues of sportsmanship and its inspiring way of embodying all that is noble about life - or - they are supercilious indictments of the anti-intellectual hod-carriers and Neanderthals that brutalize each other instead of pursuing worthwhile activities - translating Proust into Sanskrit for example.
Massillon, Ohio is football crazy by any standard, but Carlson never takes cheap shots, he doesn't laugh at his subject, nor does he idealize it, he simply presents it. This is the very hard work of a documentary, and Carlson succeeds.
Where Friday Night Lights gave us a grotesque portrait of the psychological, and physical, damage done by football mania in Texas, Go Tigers! calmly introduces us to a funeral director presenting the "Obie Special," a deluxe coffin souped up to warm the cold dead heart of even the most rabid Tigers fan. The film counts on you to do the math for yourself.
DVD Review: hometown
Summary: 3 Stars
I grew up in massillon ohio. it was where i was born and raised. while i may not like football, and i may not have succumbed to the hysteria surrounding the massillon/mckinley games, i loved being there. and i would just like to say in defense of my hometown, this movie was hyped beyond belief. everything in it is rather exagerated. yes, some of those people are lunatics about thier football, to the point of insanity, but its not really how its portrayed. i gave it three stars because i wasn't actually sure what to do! i was proud of the recognition, but slightly upset that so many people, people who have never been to massillon, never even heard of it, have nothing but horrible things to say about it because of this movie. yes, teenagers get drunk. they get tattoos and piercings. that's happened since the beginning of time. kids are kids. these ones were just caught on tape! DVD Review: In depth look
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm no fan of football, but I like Go Tigers! It's a look at football in small town America. It's both nice and scary to see how the town reacts to the local high school football.
Go Tigers is a well made look at fanaticism at its best.
DVD Review: Great high school football
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this movie was great. I love watching high school football or just football in all. This shows what OHIO high school football is all about. Not Texas, Not Florida, and Not California. It shows how strong the community and schools in ohio are when it comes to there football. Ohio is one of the top 4 recruiting states for college programs and this film is one reason why. If you like watching or playing high school football or any level of football i believe u will enjoy this film. Even if your not a Buckeye!!DVD Review: I hate Football....I love this movie!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Not to bemoan the people of small town america but i'm glad I had the good fortune to grow up in a big city. Seeing the insane obession of people who live there lives for high school football is hilarous! If you love football and are from a small town, you'll root through the whole film, if you don't live in a small town and don't care for football, you'll chuckle through most of it. I recommend watching "Hands on a Hard Body" after seeing this, another great doc.
Description of Go Tigers!
Welcome to Massillon, Ohio, where high school football is nothing short of religion. For the 33,000 people who live there, football is life--a veritable "cradle to the grave" experience that begins in the maternity ward where coaches make visits to scoutHigh school football rules in Massillon, Ohio. In this blue-collar community, dubbed "Touchdown Town" in a 1951 newsreel, the Washington High Tigers are a cradle-to-grave passion. Team boosters visit maternity wards and bestow footballs to newborn "little Tigers." A mortician offers customers Tiger theme caskets. This winning documentary, ranked by ESPN.com as among the six best sports documentaries of all time, chronicles the Tigers' pivotal 1999 season--its 106th!--in which the team's success or failure on the field could impact an upcoming tax levy to save the town's beleaguered schools. Filmmaker and Massillon native Kenneth Carlson is no mere cheerleader. He tackles the touchy issue of priorities (some parents hold promising eighth graders back so they will be bigger and stronger) and the town's Stepfordian devotion to the team that put it on the map ("Conform or be destroyed," states one disaffected youth). More inspiring are the profiles of the team's three captains, in whom one can see the positive role football plays in their lives. --Donald Liebenson
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