High school gang in 50s ends on football field

A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

The students at Whitney High School are down in the dumps since their football team faces almost certain defeat and hasn't won a game in 28 years. The school paper may have to suspend publication because the circulation is so low and the principal intends to replace student performers at the school bazaar with professionals.

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.

A high school revolves around the football coach.

High school can feel like a gang war. In this crime-comedy film, it actually is one.

In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they are falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through to the dramatic end of high school.