Forever Strong

Рик Пенинг живёт точно так же, как играет в регби: быстро, жёстко и интенсивно. Когда такая жизнь доводит его до тюрьмы, тюремный опекун Маркус Тэйт предлагает ему шанс возвратиться к игре, но играя за его конкурентов, «Highland Rugby». Неохотно Рик присоединяется к команде, где он должен принять изнурительный график обучения и уникальный кодекс поведения, который предписывает тренер Джелвикс, или завершить сезон за решеткой. Как только Рик начинает чувствовать себя частью команды, его выпускают из тюрьмы домой, где он должен присоединиться к его прежней команде, тренируемой его отцом. Выпадая в жеребьевке против «Highland», в национальном чемпионате, Рик должен выбрать за кого играть…

Rick Penning (Sean Faris) is a high school rugby football player who is the captain of his team in which all of the players only improve via drugs and alcohol. After losing the championship to the Highland High School (Utah)#Rugby team, who is also the team's rival, Rick drinks and drives, resulting in a crash that seriously injures his girlfriend, Tammy. Thus, he loses his position on the team and is sentenced to a boys' Juvenile Detention Center in Salt Lake City. Feeling bad for him, the center's manager, Marcus (Sean Astin) puts him on the Highland rugby team (much to his chagrin), coached by Larry Gelwix (Gary Cole). It takes a little while for him to get used to this new team's way. His old rugby friend sends him a rugby ball with drugs hidden in the stitching. He tries to make it while taking these drugs but one day is influenced by something one of his new teammates tells him and throws the drugs away. There is a lot of hard work for him to deal with, but he finds the strength to move forward and become a member of the Rugby team that everyone admires. Each day when he first arrives at team practices, he criticizes the coach for just sitting around and not doing any real coaching. He sees the coach always sitting with different members of the team. Then it is his turn to sit with the coach. He finds himself confessing to those drugs that were hidden in the rugby ball. The coach deals with it and tells him that the teammates want him to be a coach. He suddenly becomes influenced by brotherhood and manages to cope with his homesickness. One night after a game, the team goes out to eat for a celebration. As they are driving home, they see a mother and two children on the side of the road with a flat tire. They stop the mini bus they are riding in, and while two of the team members get out and lift the car because the mother doesn't have a jack, the others change the tire. While putting the new tire on, a car comes up from behind and clips one of th