A hot-headed high-school football player is eager to escape his depression-hit Pennsylvania steeltown by winning a sporting scholarship to college - a dream jeopardised by friction with an equally ambitious coach. Sporting drama, starring Tom Cruise, Craig T Nelson, Lea Thompson and Charles Cioffi.

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.