Rudy (1993)
Since he was a little boy, Rudy Ruttinger has idolized the University of Notre Dame and its football team. However, he is a small boy who will inevitably grow up to be a small man. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
22 April 1939, Long Island City, New York, USA
17 October 1967, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
15 October 1964, Miami, Florida, USA
6 March 1969, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
25 May 1917, Syracuse, New York, USA
26 January 1917, British Honduras
19 October 1966, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
26 October 1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
13 November 1946, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
28 March 1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
11 April 1951, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
February 18, 2012
Ideally, this movie should be seen as a double feature with Knute Rockne, All-American, that other great movie about Notre Dame football.
August 23, 2016
The film is so effective because Rudy is never seen as mock-heroic, and he's never lifted toward unrealistic achievement. He simply does the very best he can.
June 24, 2006
Directed with composure, but no great fervour, the film's conspicuously uninterested in American football, and much concerned with testing the limits and the resilience of the American dream.
August 09, 2011
Well acted but overly familiar and sentimental sports tale of the underdog
August 23, 2016
Corny and manipulative as it is, Rudy is a movie that makes you want to cheer -- if not for the real-life Rudy Ruettiger's public relations triumph, at least for the mythical Rudy's brave pursuit of an All-American dream.
August 23, 2016
Anspaugh, whose Hoosiers showed he knows from feel-good movies, directs this story as if he were conducting Bolero, carefully building climax upon climax as the story spirals to an underdog triumph every bit as tearful as that of Rocky.
August 23, 2016
Underneath its rah-rah spirit, the PG-rated Rudy is straightforward enough to raise, albeit unintentionally, some troubling questions.
August 23, 2016
At times it is both overly sentimental and unintentionally funny.
January 02, 2011
Inspiring sports film about a real life underdog.
March 26, 2007
[A] well-crafted piece of middle-American uplift.
February 24, 2011
continues to make life seem a little better
March 26, 2009
Rudy is one of those beating-the-odds tales that no one does better than Hollywood. A film that hits all the right emotional buttons, it's an intelligent, sentimental drama that lifts an audience to its feet cheering.
