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Release Date: September 30th, 2005

Running Time: 115 minutes

U.S. Box Office: $15,331,289

Rating: PG for brief mild language.

Director: Bill Paxton

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Weaver, Elias Koteas, Stephen Dillane, Peter Firth

Critics Reviews: 6 out of 10

Chicago Sun-Times "The Greatest Game Ever Played" was a game of golf, in case you thought your team might have been involved. In 1913, a working-class American amateur named Francis Ouimet defeated the great British player Harry Vardon to win the U.S. Open. Here is a movie that tells that story and exactly that story, devoting a considerable amount of its running time to the final rounds and playing like one a superb sports telecast. Roger Ebert

Reelviews When it comes to this sort of true-life sports story, Disney has cornered the market. In the past few years, the studio has released four fact-based tales of triumph, each centered on a different kind of game people play. First, there was Remember the Titans (football). That was followed by The Rookie (baseball) and Miracle (hockey). Now, we have The Greatest Game Ever Played (golf). Undoubtedly, Disney would have tried a basketball movie if Hoosiers hadn't set the bar so high. James Berardinelli

The Boston Globe This takes nerve, which the movie has in both spades and clubs. Based on screenwriter-producer Mark Frost's 2002 book and built on the sturdy bones of underdog classics from ''Rocky" to ''Seabiscuit," ''Greatest Game" begins in climactic mode and gears up from there. It's a True Story crowd-pleaser that embraces every sports cliche known to man, and it's easily the most hyperactive golf movie to date. Ty Burr

San Francisco Chronicle "The Greatest Game" isn't great -- not by a long shot. The film will have to settle for a bogey rather than a par. Still, some hyperbole is warranted, like "Safest Movie to Take the Entire Family To." No need to cover Junior's eyes or ears for even a moment. Or "Latest Inspirational Saga of a Nobody Who Takes on a Champion" -- saves you from shelling out for the "Cinderella Man" DVD. Ruthe Stein

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