The Replacements is a 2000 American sports comedy film directed by Howard Deutch. It stars Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton and Orlando Jones. The film opens with Shane Falco, a former star quarterback at Ohio State University who choked in his final college game and failed to succeed in his only pro season, doing his job cleaning the bottoms of peoples' boats. While underwater, he finds a metal trophy football labeled "Shane Falco: All American" and pretends he is playing football again. Meanwhile, the fictional Washington Sentinels are shown playing a game in which commentators... John Madden and Pat Summerall mention a players' strike taking place over salary disputes. As the game winds down, Sentinels quarterback Eddie Martel chooses to slide to the ground instead of scoring the game winning touchdown to avoid getting injured. Later that day, the owner of the Sentinels decides to hire Jimmy McGinty, the Sentinels' former coach who was fired after getting into a fight with the team's star quarterback, to recruit replacement players during the strike and coach the team for the rest of the season.
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| Release date: | August 11, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Howard Deutch |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dylan Sellers |
| Editor: | Seth Flaum, Bud S. Smith |
| Music by: | John Debney |
| Cinematography: | Tak Fujimoto |
| Screenplay by: | Vince McKewin |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |