Little Giants
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2016
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
With football season right around the corner, it felt like the right time to revisit the 1994 comedy Little Giants. It may not have been as popular as other similarly-themed films from this era, but the performances from Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neil, and the entire cast of kids help make it a lot better than you might expect.
Topics include: how the project's origins can be traced back to a McDonald's commercial, a more streamlined backstory that cleans up the underdeveloped romantic subplot, why Junior missed football tryouts and how his mother and Danny went all these years without realizing they lived in the same small town, the reason both of the O'Shea brothers needed to "see it my way" just a little bit more by the time they reached that final game, the weird message a Giants' victory sends to young viewers, just what in the world is going on in Coach Kevin's bedroom, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Little Giants? |
| 0:31.5 | Hello and welcome to Hey, do you remember Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:36.6 | And today we're revisiting Little Giants. |
| 1:00.0 | In the small town of Urbania, Ohio, Danny O'Shea has spent his entire life living under the shadow cast by his big brother Kevin. |
| 1:11.2 | Although he's grown accustomed to the near constant steamrolling, Anne made peace with certain dreams he's had to let go of because of Kevin's bullish tactics, he's not going to let the same thing happen to his daughter Becky or her friends. When they're rejected from joining Kevin's pee-wee football dynasty, Danny is forced |
| 1:16.8 | to take a stand. He agrees to coach a rival team for them and all of the other unwashed |
| 1:21.5 | miscreants, Urbania underestimates, but the town isn't big enough for both of them. So Danny |
| 1:26.4 | and Kevin agree to a playoff game that will determine who gets to stay on the field. |
| 1:31.0 | If you're a fan of little giants, then you should probably thank your lucky stars |
| 1:34.5 | that Steven Spielberg happened to catch a McDonald's ad that ran during the 1992 Super Bowl. |
| 1:40.3 | It was a spot titled Perfect Season that celebrated Pee Wee Football teams and their coaches. |
| 1:45.3 | And when the ad's creator Jim Ferguson arrived at work one morning, he thought his coworkers |
| 1:49.5 | were having a laugh when they told him he had missed a call from the legendary director. |
| 1:53.6 | But it was no joke. And when he returned the call, Spielberg cut to the chase. He said, |
| 1:58.5 | I want that commercial made into a movie. I want my home alone. |
| 2:02.9 | The call lasted 90 seconds, and according to Ferguson, it forever changed the lives of him and his |
| 2:07.7 | writing partner, Bob Schallcross. However, Spielberg's Home Alone, this was not. The film received |
| 2:14.0 | mixed reviews and didn't even manage to recoup its budget at the box office, |
| 2:18.2 | but it became a staple on cable television in the mid-90s, and its reputation has definitely |
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