In the mold of Rudy, Remember The Titans, Friday Night Lights, and Brian’s Song comes Gary Fleder’s 2008 The Express starring Rob Brown as Ernie Davis, a Syracuse football running back from the early 1960s, and Dennis Quiad as Ben Schwartzwalder, Ernie’s college football coach. Ernie Davis became the first black athlete ever to win the Heisman Trophy. That is a considerable feat, but some people do not know that Davis succeeded Jim Brown at Syracuse University. Jim Brown is arguably the greatest football player and US athlete ever.
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
The opening scene of Christine Jeffs’ (Sylvia, Rain) 2008 Sunshine Cleaning shows a man purchasing a shotgun at a gun shop and proceeding to blow his head off by reaching into his pocket and pulling out a shell that he brought into the store. Steve Zahn (Rescue Dawn, Sahara) plays police detective Mac, who, when ending his investigation of the suicide, meets the crime scene cleanup crew and learns of the above-average wages that this profession brings. Rose Norkowski, played by a convincingly good Amy Adams (Doubt, The Fighter), is Mac’s mistress.