We Are Marshall (2/5) Movie CLIP - Shouldering Responsibility (2006) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Nate Ruffin (Anthony Mackie) cracks under the weight of his own feelings of guilt and obligation.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
A true story of tragedy, hope, and resilience comes to the screen in this sports drama. Huntington, WV, is home to Marshall University, a school where college football is a way of life. Huntington is also a town that learned to deal with tragedy in the fall of 1970 when Marshall's "Thundering Herd" boarded an airliner to return home after a football game in North Carolina. The jet crashed into a hill due to bad weather, and 75 members of Marshall's football squad and athletic staff died that night. The accident dealt a crippling blow to the city of Huntington, as well as Marshall's faculty and student body, and university president Donald Dedmon (David Strathairn) considered abandoning the school's football program. But instead Coach Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) was recruited from Ohio's College of Wooster to rebuild Marshall's football program. Lengyel was not naïve about the task ahead of him, and working beside Red Dawson (Matthew Fox), an assistant coach who narrowly missed the doomed flight and was one of the program's only survivors, he came to understand his job was not just to put a team on the field, but help a college and a community heal their wounds from the tragic accident. Together Lengyel and Dawson turned a handful of rookies and second-string players into a competitive team who in 1971 showed the world what they could do in a legendary game against Marshall's rivals, Xavier University. Produced with the cooperation of Marshall University and filmed in part on their campus, We Are Marshall also stars Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, and January Jones.

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (2006)
Cast: Anthony Mackie, Matthew McConaughey
Director: McG
Producers: Jeanne Allgood, William Fay, Basil Iwanyk, Jamie Linden, Adolfo Martínez Pérez, Trumaine McBride, Scott Mednick, Brent O'Connor, Thomas Tull, Mary Viola, Matthew Robert Kelly
Screenwriters: Jamie Linden, Cory Helms

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[MrHarpguitarist]

I always felt that Anthony Mackie was an incredibly underrated actor. He has never really gotten the respect he truly deserves.

[gamblorrr]

"They just left." is one of the most brutally honest explanations for death.
Sometimes there isn't a rhyme or reason to it. No one or no thing to get justice from, it just happens.

[jakestanley]

"My shoulder's fine" brought immediate tears to my eyes, my god.

[freedoms]

When you can actually feel the pain of his shoulder, it's fair to say that the acting skill is amazing. The beginning of the scene is one take, no cuts, tears included. That is commitment. Memorable.

[Senior]

Anthony Mackie deserved an Oscar for this role. Super underrated performer.

[laceybolton]

This part made me cry so hard. But I freaking love this movie

[ragetti]

This scene gets me teary-eyed. What I see is even though he was going through pain and grief his heart was still on fire. But it touched me to see how the Coach just listened to him and gave him a real hug. Compassion and Love are so powerful during the worst tragedies, and this scene just reminds me to seek for the good in people. Because even when the world is twisted and awful, Love helps us to conquer all things!

[Claymation]

I've never made it through this scene without crying

[jamaral]

Mackie is such a good actor, Oscar will be coming his way eventually

[jackbyrne]

The compassion that McConaghey’s character shows Nate is what makes us human.

[nicholastriani]

When he said that was my team that whole scene just hits you so damn hard I can't tell i cried hard tears 😢

[timandshannon]

That fact that a tear was smacked off of his face when his shoulder was smacked is so damn realistic you forget it's acting. This whole scene feels genuine, and heartbreakingly so.

[charliegollmar]

This was one of the best performances Anthony Mackie ever gave.

[royall]

This made my boyfriend cry. It takes a special moment to get him to feel it. He loved this scene.

[diondredgreggregory]

Emotional scene 😢 . Salute to the marshall team that passed and their team mates that continued their legacy 👏

[ryanmccarthy]

If a scene like this doesn't make tears well up in your eyes, then you simply have no heart or soul to speak of.
💯

[Haseeebo]

IDk how this movie did so poorly at the box office....this movie is fuckin epic!

[Vange-kwye]

Watching this now forgot just how good a film this was. Mackie and McConaughey just spectacular not only in this scene but the whole way start to finish. Inspirational, heartfelt, great cast this was one of the real gems of sports films not just for this time period but all time.

[dancindan]

I don't know (and hope I never know) the emotional pain Nate Ruffin was going through, but having dislocated my shoulder badly playing football I have an idea of the physical pain he was pushing through, and Anthony Mackie does an AMAZING job with this character showing that.

[drewyang]

8 years have gone by and I still get teary eyed