"The Program" is a movie about a ficitonal university and its football program. The coach, as you'd expect, is under extreme pressure to produce a winner and, as you'd also expect with such a program, this means to win at most any cost. Through the course of this soap opera-like story, again and again, you see the ways that many of these players behave in self-destructive and selfish ways...which is odd since the film ALSO seems to want you to root for the team at the same time!
I appreciate how the story is pretty much a warts and all production...with drinking, sexual assaults and the like...things you sadly hear about various college teams on the news. But at the same time, it makes for a story that you feel disconnected from as well because in most cases you don't want to root for the guys. An unusual story in this regard....and something that makes this a film mostly for football fans OR folks who hate football...but no one in between.
I appreciate how the story is pretty much a warts and all production...with drinking, sexual assaults and the like...things you sadly hear about various college teams on the news. But at the same time, it makes for a story that you feel disconnected from as well because in most cases you don't want to root for the guys. An unusual story in this regard....and something that makes this a film mostly for football fans OR folks who hate football...but no one in between.