Product Details

• Actors: Christine Lahti, Brian Presley, Kurt Russell, Melanie Lynskey, Marc Blucas
• Directors: Don Handfield
• Producers: Touchback ( Touch back ), Touchback, Touch back
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Subtitles: Swedish, Danish, Finnish
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Run Time: 118.00 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B005TCL1P2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #463,587 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Sweden released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Danish ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Touchback follows Murphy (Brian Presley), a down-on-his-luck small town farmer and volunteer fireman whose glorious high school football days were cut short when he was critically injured during a playoff game. He often wonders 'what if' and then is unexpectedly thrust from the present day back to that fateful instant that changed his life forever. But this time around Murphy has the choice to decide if he wants the life he has or the life that could have been. ...Touchback ( Touch back )

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This little town is really special September 15, 2012

By zeus

Format:Blu-ray

Wow, what a great family movie!!!

This movie is definitely worth your money.

The story is simple. Scott Murphy (Brian Presley) is a great quarterback for a small town high school football team that plays the Cinderella role in a state final championship game against a big time high school football team in Ohio. They end up winning the state championship on a great play by Scott, however, Scott gets severely injured, resulting in being crippled for life. We follow Scott for a while, 20 years later on the eve of a big celebration of the state championship, where all players are coming back to town for the 20th anniversary of their win. That is the first part of the movie (about 30 minutes). Scott gets somehow the opportunity to try to live these moments all over again while knowing what will happen. And we are in for 90 minutes of a very intense emotional performance by Kurt Russell, Brian Presley, Melaney Lynskey, and Christine Lahti. The script, the dialogues, the direction are all FANTASTIC. In addition, the football plays are really intense and mostly played by the actors themselves. So you also see great football too.

The movie shows what it takes to become a great person and why you need to make choices in life, you need to stick with them and never show regret. The discussion that Scott has with his mom before the game is for the books. The movie also shows the corruption at the level of recruiting. The Ohio State coach tells Scott not to play (or to ...pay attention tonight because they are sold on him, and most of the players from the other team will be on his team next year) on the eve of the championship game at a dinner, in front of his mother, in order to stay healthy and come to play for Ohio State. This level of arrogance demonstrates that the higher you go in the football hierarchy the more corrupt the system is.

Will Scott use this phenomenal chance to change the outcome of the game? Will he play or not? Will he change the plays or not in order for him to stay healthy and go to Ohio State? Will they still win? We keep guessing all the time. And suddenly while we keep guessing he wakes up, and everything becomes clear.

Please watch this movie with your kids and they will learn what it takes to become a real person. They will learn that there are things in life more important than a big car, a big house, and a beautiful cheer leader as a girlfriend/wife. There are things in life that have no price. You just have to find it and do it, regardless of the emotional and physical price you have to pay. And you (only) always know that you did the right thing!

Make sure you get your Kleenex box available on the coffee table because the end of the movie is totally unpredictable and not one person around you will have dry eyes.

Five stars all the way. Everything in this movie is great! You can watch it over and over again with your kids and then with your grand kids. Never gets old. In addition, great football too as a bonus. All football scenes were directed and coordinated by Sports Studio's Mark Ellis, who has worked on several other films that needed football plays (like We Are Marshall). No tatoos, no profanity, no nudity, just hard hitting football. Mark Ellis also plays the coach of the other team, the Red Raiders.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best movies I have seen in awhile July 28, 2012

By S. Der

Format:DVD

This movie is extremely good. I haven't seen such a great story telling movie in a long while. It's about a football player Scott, who is the star quarterback for his small town of Coldwater. He and his team gets to play in the State Finals for the championship. Scott and his team does defects the rival team, but at the costs of his left leg. Scott leg gets bended apart and is extremely hurt from his amazing play he did.

(What I found odd is that in the play his right leg got hurt in the play he did, but some how after the play his left leg is bended. I think this is a mistake on the director.)

Now, the movie fast forward to present time and Scott is now a framer/fireman and is family man with 2 kids and a wife. He has bum left leg and needs to be tie up with steel leg holder to keep it straight.

What is worse is that Scott is in trouble with the bank. He is at risks of lossing his farm and house to the bank, because he can't pay back his loan on time. If he doesn't come up with the money, he will lose it all. Scott is a really strong and proud man. He doesn't tell his wife or anyone that he needs help.

Everything goes from bad to worse as now his crops that he was growing and is what going to help him pay back the money to the bank is at risk of dying soon because the cold weather. The crops are slowly freezing to death and Scott needs to hurry and harvest them. Scott has no way of saving his crops, so he at the end of his rope. He decides to kill himself and let his family claim his life insurance.

At this point, Scott then wakes up and is back in high school. He realizes that he hasn't played the championship game and he has a second chance to do it all over again. The movie gets really good now as Scott starts asking people around him what would they do if they had a second chance at life? Scoot also starts to try to make his life better for the people around him and his family. But, what would Scott do about the game? He knows what will happen if he plays? Will he play at all? If he plays, will he risks losing his great future life or go back and be with his wife? This was constantly talked and shown during the movie and it was really done very well.

This is a must watch movie and even a great buy.

---Small Spolier Alert---

Throughout the finish of the movie I didn't know what Scoot would really do for the game. I didn't even know if he would even play in the game at the end because he sure didn't want to it seemed like. Then, you don't even know if he would do the play that costs him his leg and his better life. But, in the very end, he did do the play in the game and having a bum leg again. But, in the end he was very happy after all.

I won't tell you what they did for the ending, but it was really great and unexpected. It made my review turn from a 4 star movie into a 5 star movie hands down!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A really good family movie. May 2, 2012

By J. Smoes

Format:DVD

This is a really good family movie. It is a bit of "Back To The Future" and "It's A Wonderful Life" rolled into one. There is some foul language, but not much. There are some sexual references but not overtly obvious. I would recommend it for kids 10 and over to watch with their parents. It has a good moral....do you dwell on the "only ifs" of your past or do you play the cards that you are dealt and move on with your life.