As far as kids’ sports movies go, you can do a lot worse than “Little Giants” (1994). I know that’s not much of an endorsement, but the genre has a low ceiling. And this one does indeed have all the cliche rag-tag misfits (fat kid, nerdy kid, sickly kid, tomboy, blah, blah, blah) that make for eye-rolling hijinks. Two brothers – one’s a champ, one’s a wimp – square off as youth football coaches, but the subplots make the difference. The tomboy’s having an identity crisis, while hometown Heisman hero Ed O’Neill has several nice-guy moments that belie his hard-nosed sibling persona.
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