Brian Bosworth Movies
One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an alcohol problem have taken their toll, Crewe is arrested for a serious traffic accident aggravated by the fact he was drunk. Crewe is sentenced to Allenville Penitentiary, where Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) is something of a football fan. Hazen had organized his guards into an impressive football team, and clears a healthy profit by taking bets on their games. Looking to make the competition more interesting, Hazen suggests that Crewe put together a team from the inmate population to play his guards. With the help of fellow prisoner Caretaker (Chris Rock), Crewe recruits the heaviest hitters from the cell block for the team, but the guys don't play like a unit until Crewe and Caretaker get some help from Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds), a former college and NFL coach doing hard time. Adapted from Robert Aldrich's 1974 box-office smash of the same name, The Longest Yard also features rap star Nelly and Nicholas Turturro; the film has previously been loosely remade in 2001 as Mean Machine, with the action moved to England and the game changed to soccer. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, (more)
Dean Cain, formerly of television's Lois & Clark, stars opposite ex-NFL player Brian Bosworth in this straight-to-video action flick from director Bryan Matthew Goeres. Cain plays a reporter whose latest investigation leads him to a string of deaths that may or may not be murders. When he connects the recently departed to an experimental drug, his snooping starts to rub some shady folks led by Bosworth the wrong way. Can he blow the lid of the story before the bad-guys blow his lid off? Mimi Kuzyk also stars. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dean Cain, Brian Bosworth, (more)
Former football star Brian Bosworth stars in this action thriller as Alex Carville, a CIA agent who, while on assignment in Russia shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union, is captured by KGB forces and placed in a mental hospital. Eleven years later, Carville is given a chance to earn his freedom: Felix Grady, an eccentric multimillionaire from Texas who bears a striking resemblance to Carville (and is also played by Bosworth), has bought an extremely valuable painting, and Carville's keepers offer to smuggle him back to the United States if he's willing to pose as Grady, pick up the painting, and hand it over to Russian agents in the United States. Carville agrees, but things don't go quite as expected -- while Carville is getting the painting, the real Felix Grady shows up, and things quickly turn violent , with Carville trying to escape both from the Russians and the police. The Operative also stars Teryl Rothery and Bob Dawson. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Bosworth, John Tench, (more)
One of America's bravest military men finds himself pushing the limits of his abilities in this action-thriller. Senator Stuart Davis (David Hedison), a U.S. Congressman running for president, is travelling to the Balkins, hoping to speak with political leaders there to stop a civil war that threatens to become a major conflict. While on board, Davis decides to check out a computer disc which was handed to him shortly before his flight took off, and to his surprise, he discovers it contains damning evidence which proves Vice President Pike (Cliff Robertson), who is facing off against Davis in the upcoming election, is the leader of a secret plan to encourage the war in the Balkans so that American arms dealers will be able to sell weapons to both sides. It isn't long before Pike learns that Davis knows his secret and he's willing to use his power and his agents to bring down Davis' flight (and the innocent civilians on board) to cover his tracks. One of Davis' passengers is Capt. Jack Tyree (Brian Bosworth), an Air Force anti-terrorism expert, and it becomes obvious it's up to him to fight off Pike's goons and bring the jetliner safely to the ground. However, there's a catch -- despite his daring, skill, and military training, Tyree has never learned how to fly a plane. Mach 2 also stars Shannon Whirry, Michael Dorn, and Bruce Weitz. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Bosworth, Michael Dorn, (more)
- 1997
- R
Disgraced in a frame-up perpetrated by his fellow officers, abandoned by his wife for another and with only a radio-talk-show host to help him with his problems, policeman Joe Elkhart is angry and depressed about his life. It is the radio counselor who convinces him to return home to try and make amends, both to his wife, and to his partner. But what starts out as a simple quest for redemption turns into a complex nightmare for Joe when he finds himself entangled in a complicated and dangerous situation involving a super-cool FBI agent and an illegal drug tsar. Though the two lawmen are complete opposites, they agree to set aside all differences and solve the case. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Bosworth, Joe Torry, (more)
- 1996
- R
This programmer stars Brian Bosworth as John Grey, a bank executive who is involved in a car crash, and subsequently experiences complete amnesia. Matters grow more complex when he finally makes his way home and finds his wife brutally and inexplicably murdered. Grey soon determines to both find the killer and recover his own lost identity. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Bosworth, Brad Dourif, (more)
- 1996
- PG13
Former football player Brian Bosworth headlines this ecologically conscious direct-to-video actioner. He plays a member of the presidential security staff who with his lovely lady partner has been dispatched to Yellowstone Park to save the planet from deadly biological weapons that were accidentally spilled during a trucking accident. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Bosworth, Leah King Pinsent, (more)
In this hard-driving actioner, an Army drill sergeant John North (Brian Bosworth) enlists the aid of a street-smart 12-year-old punk to wreak vengeance upon the weapons brokers who slaughtered his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Bosworth, Bruce Payne, (more)
- 1991
- R
In the early '90s, Brian Bosworth made the seamless transition from football bad boy to onscreen bad ass. In Stone Cold, the Boz plays cop Joe Huff, a brute force specialist. The FBI contracts him to take down a biker gang known as the Brotherhood, who have been implicated in drug trafficking and several murders. Joe assumes the personality of John Stone and goes undercover. His mission seems not to bust the gang but rather to kill with excessive force. Before he can take the law into his own hands, however, he has to get in with the gang's leader, the impressively tough Chains. The Boz doesn't disappoint, and he gets his chance in the final confrontation where he takes on several score of the Brotherhood in the street battle to end all street battles. ~ Brian Whitener, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Bosworth, Lance Henriksen, (more)
