How prescient is Little Giants? It's a movie about a ragtag peewee football team that eerily touches on several hot-button topics in the college and pro game: scurrilous recruiting, the glorification of hostile masculinity, and the spread offense. It's no wonder it would essentially be remade six years later, with adults, as The Replacements.
How dated is Little Giants? It's got concussion jokes. It mercilessly makes fun of the fat kid. Every camcorder in the film is only slightly smaller than a ghettoblaster. It assumes the audience still recognizes John Madden as an actual football coach.
All this, plus the complexities of Icebox as a ‘90s feminist icon, in this week’s episode.
Little Giants (1994)
Directed by Duwayne Dunham
Produced by Arne Schmidt
Written by James Ferguson & Robert Shallcross and Tommy Swerdlow & Michael Goldberg
Starring Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, Shawna Waldron, and Devon Sawa
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