Second String
"She believed in him. Now he must believe in himself to lead the team to the Super Bowl."
Overview
American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place...
Second String at a glance
Second String is a 2002 tv movie and comedy film directed by Rob Lieberman, starring Jon Voight, Gil Bellows and Teri Polo. It runs for 1 hour 40 minutes. TMDB users rate it 7.0 out of 10 from 4 votes.
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