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A film about the #1 ranked high school football team in Pennsylvania, and the #3 ranked team in the USA. Mike Pettine, Sr. has coached CB West for 33 years, and is thinking about hanging up his whistle and trading in his cleats for new golf spikes. But with a record 30 game win streak as well as 2 State Championships in a row, he is unable to resist the thrill of the game and the joy of coaching, and enters the season undecided whether it will be his last. The odds against going undefeated for a 3rd straight season, if Vegas allowed such bets, would be 10,000 to 1 against. After all, he lost his offensive line to Division 1 college scholarships. And the odds of winning a world record 3rd straight Pennsylvania AAAA State Championship? A million to 1 shot. Sure, he has good players, like Dustin Picciotti, ranked the #1 fullback prospect in the nation, but he has a bigger problem... the last game of the season on the schedule. On a Friday night in November, the #1 team in PA plays the #2 ranked team... a team coached by none other than... Mike Pettine, Jr. Believe it or not, the name similarity is not a coincidence- it really is his only son who he must face as his greatest rival. And who is stuck in the middle of all this? The wife of Senior and the mother of Junior, a saintly woman called Joyce Pettine, who must keep the peace and decide which side of the field to sit on. THE LAST GAME, if it were a Hollywood script, would be laughed at for the contrivances- but life is stranger than fiction, and all of this is true. The filmmakers, while talented, admit that they are the luckiest two guys around. Both T. Patrick Murray, who originated the project, and Alex Weinress, who shot and edited the film with his partner every day, every practice, every game and everything in between, both played football themselves. But Murray had a unique insight into the sport, as his uncle was the General Manager of the Philadelphia Eagles, and his Dad owned the New England Patriots from the NFL. After the film won BEST FILM at two film festivals, one time beating the winner of that year's SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Best Documentary Award to take top prize, THE LAST GAME was broadcast on national TV in prime time on ESPN, and then went to DVD. The greatest Hollywood sports-centered filmmaker- RON SHELTON- who made Bull Durham and Tin Cup, as well as many other great non-sports features, saw the doc and wrote an adapted screenplay. Currently, Murray and Weinress, along with Kip Konwiser and Jim Lampley, are developing a Hollywood remake of this amazing, once in a lifetime sport story- a football film more about family and friendship... a sports story that reminds us that, in the game of football, and life, winning isn't everything. The ultimate victory is 100% effort, failure is the foundation on which success is built, and to win at the expense of those we love is actually to lose something much more valuable. But, in the end, THE LAST GAME is about a man who coaches like a drill sergeant but secretly conceals a softness and heart of gold only seen by his little grandson. It is about a family who tries to balance an impossible equation of allegiances, a team of teenagers who handle the burden of pressures most adults never experience. Most of all, it is about never giving up, no matter how late it is in the game of football, or life- no matter how far you find yourself behind on the scoreboard- with the power of perseverance, THE LAST GAME proves that attitude beats ability, teamwork beats individual talent, and 'victory' is a state of exhausted effort confused with the less noble goal of 'winning'. THE LAST GAME entertains better than any 100 million Hollywood blockbuster, while teaching us the true meaning of football, family, friendship- and ask us if the price of winning to serve individual ego & America's obsession with success is paid with our soul?

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