Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.

• Lucille Ball Productions
• 20th Century Fox
• Tom Cruise
• Craig T. Nelson
• Lea Thompson
• Charles Cioffi
• Gary Graham
• Paul Carafotes
• Chris Penn
• Sandy Faison