Movie
National Champions
Overview
A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools.
Details
- Release date
- 2021-12-10
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- STXfilms, Thunder Road, BondIt Media Capital, game1, Amet Entertainment, Why Not You Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Stephan James as LeMarcus James
- J.K. Simmons as Coach James Lazor
- Alexander Ludwig as Emmett Sunday
- Lil Rel Howery as Coach Dunn
- Tim Blake Nelson as Rodger Cummings
- Andrew Bachelor as Taylor Sheridan
- David Koechner as Richard Everly
- Jeffrey Donovan as Mark Titus
- Kristin Chenoweth as Bailey Lazor
- Timothy Olyphant as Elliott Schmidt
- Uzo Aduba as Katherine Poe
- Russell Wilson as Russell Wilson
Crew
- Ric Roman Waugh - Director
- Adam Mervis - Writer
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