Forever Strong (2008)
Rick Penning is captain of his high school rugby team whose coach Richard Penning is his father, and whose players indulge in drugs and alcohol. After losing the championship to their rivals the Highland Rugby Team, Rick drinks and drives, resulting in a crash that seriously injures his girlfriend, Tammy. He is sentenced to a boys’ Juvenile Detention Center in Salt Lake City. The manager of the center, Marcus puts him on the Highland rugby team much to his chagrin, coached by Larry Gelwix. He struggles to adapt to this new team’s ways.
A friend sends him a rugby ball with drugs hidden in the stitching. He uses the drugs until, influenced by something one of his new teammates tells him, he throws the drugs away. He works hard and finds the strength to become a member of the widely admired Highland team. Each day when he arrives at team practice he criticizes the coach for sitting around chatting with different team members and not doing any real coaching. Then it is his turn to sit with the coach and finds himself confessing to the drugs hidden in the rugby ball. The coach deals with it and tells him that his teammates want him to be a coach. He is influenced by brotherhood and can cope with his homesickness.
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Cast:  Sean FarisRick Penning  Gary ColeCoach Larry Gelwix  Sean AstinMarcus Tate  Neal McDonoughCoach Richard Penning  Penn BadgleyLars  Julie WarnerNatalie Penning  Arielle KebbelEmily  Michael J. PaganKurt  Nathan WestQuentin  Max KaschGriggs  Olesya RulinEmily's Friend |
Rick Penning is captain of his high school rugby team whose coach Richard Penning is his father, and whose players indulge in drugs and alcohol. After losing the championship to their rivals the Highland Rugby Team, Rick drinks and drives, resulting in a crash that seriously injures his girlfriend, Tammy. He is sentenced to a boys’ Juvenile Detention Center in Salt Lake City. The manager of the center, Marcus puts him on the Highland rugby team much to his chagrin, coached by Larry Gelwix. He struggles to adapt to this new team’s ways.
A friend sends him a rugby ball with drugs hidden in the stitching. He uses the drugs until, influenced by something one of his new teammates tells him, he throws the drugs away. He works hard and finds the strength to become a member of the widely admired Highland team. Each day when he arrives at team practice he criticizes the coach for sitting around chatting with different team members and not doing any real coaching. Then it is his turn to sit with the coach and finds himself confessing to the drugs hidden in the rugby ball. The coach deals with it and tells him that his teammates want him to be a coach. He is influenced by brotherhood and can cope with his homesickness.
