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Release year: 2002

Storyline

Story of Bear Bryant's first summer as head football coach at Texas A&M. Bear takes his charges out onto the scorched plains and sees who survives.

Top credits

Directors

Mike Robe

Writers

Cast

Tom Berenger — Paul 'Bear' Bryant
Bernard Curry — Johnny Haynes
Fletcher Humphrys — Skeet Keeler
Ryan Kwanten — Claude Gearheart

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Did you know

• With the movie being filmed in Australia, virtually all of the young men playing prospective Aggie football players were Australian. Therefore, all of the Texas accents - as convincing as they might've been - were indeed fake.

• Gene Stallings, a Junction Boy who later went on to coach at Texas A&M, in the NFL with with the St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals and then at Alabama (including coaching the Crimson Tide to their first national championship since Paul "Bear" Bryant's retirement and death in 1993), disputed the way that both the "The Junction Boys" book and movie portrayed Bryant. In a September 2006 interview with Tuscaloosa Magazine, Stallings had this to say: "Junction, Texas, was tough, but I didn't like the way the book...and movie portrayed Coach Bryant. He wasn't brutal; he was tough. That's a big difference. He wanted to bring us together, away from distractions, unite the team."

• The Texas A&M Aggies' 1-9 season in 1954 immediately after the camp was the only losing season in Paul "Bear" Bryant's 38 years as a head coach.

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