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American Underdog
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American Underdog is a 2021 American biographical sports film about National Football League Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, who went from stocking shelves at a supermarket to winning Super Bowl XXXIV. Directed by Andrew and Jon Erwin, the film stars Zachary Levi as Warner, Anna Paquin as his wife Brenda, and Dennis Quaid as St. Louis Rams head coach Dick Vermeil. | |
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Real Footage Re-creation: Key plays during Super Bowl XXXIV were painstakingly choreographed and recreated for the movie, which allowed those scenes to be intercut with archive footage from the game. | |
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Paying in Coins | |
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Paying in Coins: After running out of gas during a snowstorm, Kurt runs a few miles back to the nearest gas station where he pays with a couple dollar bills and whatever change they could scrounge together in the vehicle. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Warner has a variant when his college coach teaches him to stay in the pocket. Later, we see him staying in shape for the next year's draft (interspersed with stocking shelves) after being cut by Green Bay. | |
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Big Game | |
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Big Game: The biggest in American Football, Super Bowl XXXIV. | |
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Forgot to Pay the Bill: Kurt and Brenda's power is cut. Earlier, he told her not to pay the bill yet, and they never got around to paying it. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: While stocking shelves, Kurt sees Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre on a Wheaties cereal box. Later, Kurt appears on a Wheaties cereal box. Young Kurt's blue football shirt (with tape forming his name and the number 13) mirrors Kurt's actual Rams uniform. | |
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Braving the Blizzard | |
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Braving the Blizzard: After running out of gas during a snowstorm, Kurt runs a few miles back to the nearest gas station and then runs back to the vehicle where Brenda and the kids are trying to stay warm. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: While mostly true to Warner's real-life story, a few liberties were taken: While the film correctly depicts his first NFL start as being against the Baltimore Ravens in 1999, it ignores the fact that he had briefly played in garbage time during the Rams' final game of the 1998 season. Because of this, Warner had technically been on the Rams longer than Trent Green, who had been signed in February 1999 to be the starting QB, but went down in the preseason with an injury that sidelined him for all of 1999. Kurt and Brenda are depicted as briefly living in the basement of her parents' home. The real Kurt and Brenda did live in a basement, but with Kurt's parents instead of Brenda's. | |
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Single Parents Are Undesirable | |
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Single Parents Are Undesirable: Brenda is a divorced mom with two kids, one of them a special needs child, and both she and Kurt's mom warn him about the difficulty that involves. He is undeterred. | |
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Second-Act Breakup | |
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Second-Act Breakup: Brenda breaks up with Kurt because of the stress of his commute to play arena football. | |
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Cheap Costume | |
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Cheap Costume: As a child, Kurt makes a football uniform by sticking tape to a shirt | |
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Trailer Park Tornado Magnet: After Brenda's parents are killed by a tornado, Kurt passes a devastated trailer park on his way to her parents' suburban neighborhood. | |
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Biopic | |
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Biopic: Kurt Warner's story, from playing college football, to stocking shelves, to playing arena football, to winning Super Bowl XXXIV. Interspersed with all of that, the film also pays a great deal of attention to how his pursuit of a pro football career shaped his relationship with his girlfriend and wife Brenda, her special needs son Zack, and the rest of her family. | |
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Underdogs Never Lose | |
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Underdogs Never Lose: Football fans know how Super Bowl XXXIV ended. | |
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Worth It | |
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Worth It: After Brenda gives Kurt her number, she notices that his car isn't in front of her house. He says that he walked, and she points out that the university is 3 miles away. | |
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Real-Person Cameo: The real Kurt and Brenda are at a table in the background during some of the bar scenes. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Details about the rest of Kurt's NFL career, Kurt and Brenda's marriage and family, and Zack's life. | |
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Lives in a Van | |
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Lives in a Van: After his tryout with Green Bay ends badly, Kurt was living in the green SUV that he bought with his signing bonus. | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Rags to Riches: Or if you prefer, supermarket to Super Bowl. | |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job | |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Warner stocks shelves at night at a supermarket just to get by. Playing arena football (which he considers "a circus") could also count, because he initially signed the contract only because it paid more than the store job. | |
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Struggling Single Mother | |
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Struggling Single Mother: Brenda starts out this way. | |
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Historical Villain Upgrade: Rams offensive coordinator Mike Martz (played by Chance Kelly) constantly berates Warner for every bad pass in practice and tells him to his face in a meeting that he doesn't think he's worthy to run his offense. In real life, none of that happened. In fact, Martz was one of Warner's biggest backers. | |
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The Benchwarmer | |
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The Benchwarmer: Warner's college coach refuses to play him because he won't stay in the pocket. | |
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