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Rudy is a 1993 film directed by David Anspaugh. It is an account of the life of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles.

Main cast

Sean Astin
as Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
Jon Favreau
as D-Bob
Ned Beatty
as Daniel Ruettiger, Sr.
Charles S. Dutton
as Fortune
Jason Miller
as Ara Parseghian
Lili Taylor
as Sherry
Robert Prosky
as Father John Cavanaugh
Vince Vaughn
(Credited as Vincent Vaughn) as Jamie O'Hara
Chelcie Ross
as Dan Devine

Plot

"Rudy" Ruettiger grew up dreaming of playing football at the Unviersity of Notre Dame. While achieving some success with his local high school football team, Ruettiger lacked the talent - let alone the grades or money - to attend and play football for the Fighting Irish. Instead, he takes a job at the local steel mill where his father works and prepares to settle down. When his best friend is killed in an accident at the mill, Rudy decides to follow his dream of playing college football and leaves for Notre Dame, against his father's warning that "Ruettiger's don't belong at Notre Dame." Ruettiger fails to get admitted to Notre Dame, and instead goes to a small junior college, hoping to qualify for a transfer to the university. During his final semester, he achieves the necessary grades to enter Notre Dame. Ruettiger convinces coach Ara Parseghian to give him a spot on the football practice team, where Rudy often exhibits more drive and desire than some of his varsity teammates. Upon Dan Devine's installation as head coach, Ruettiger fears he will lose the chance to dress and play in a live game, an arrangement he had with Parseghian. His teammates rise to his defense, demanding that he be allowed to suit up for the final game of the season. In the final play of that game, coach Devine is persuaded to insert Rudy, who sacks the opposing quarterback to end the game. Rudy is carried off the field by his teammates, the last Notre Dame player to have such a distinction.

Memorable quotes

Fortune: You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have nearly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football team in the land for 2 years. And you're gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.

Father Cavanaugh: Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I'm not Him.

Rudy: We're gonna go inside, we're gonna go outside, inside and outside. We're gonna get 'em on the run boys and once we get 'em on the run we're gonna keep 'em on the run. And then we're gonna go go go go go go and we're not gonna stop til we get across that goalline. This is a team they say is... is good, well I think we're better than them. They can't lick us, so what do you say men?

Jaime O'Hara: First practice of the season and this asshole thinks it's the Super Bowl!

Ara Parsegian: You just summed up your entire sorry career here in one sentence! If you had a tenth of the heart of Ruettiger's you coulda made All-American. As it is you just went from the third team to the prep team.

Coach: Let me tell it to you as clean as I can. We have ninety-five players here, so accomplished as atheletes in high school, we gave 'em full scholarships to the best football program in the country. NCAA regulations allow us to dress just sixty for home games; which means at least thirty-five scholarship players are gonna be watching the games from the stands, so if any of you has any fantasies about running out of that stadium tunnel with your gold helmet shining in the sun, you best leave them right here. Of you fifteen dreamers out there, maybe we'll keep one or two. My job is to basically beat the shit out of you for the next five days, and whoever is still standing at the end, maybe we'll use for our scout teams. You'll be running the opposition's plays, week in and week out. Your greatest value to us is we don't care whether you get hurt. Like what you hear so far? Any of you want to run home to momma? Now's you chance! No? They're all yours.

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