12 Mighty Orphans (2021) Reviews & Ratings

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12 Mighty Orphans reviews

12 Mighty Orphans holds a 7.2/10 average from 259 TMDB ratings.

Luke Wilson is quite effective here as a football coach (Rusty) who, with his teacher wife (Juanita) and his daughter arrive at a run down orphanage, home to 150 children of all ages abandoned by their parents in the midst of the Great Depression. Pretty quickly, they get the general idea that those in the establishment are considered more like the inmates of a prison, and those running it are at best indifferent, a…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

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