Watch the Movie: Touchback (2021)

I want to share this great movie with you called Touchback made in 2021. The most notable actor is Kurt Russell and the writer/director is Don Handfield. 

There are two time periods depicted in the movie, one from the main character's high school senior year of 1991 and twenty years later when he is married with two children. 

This is the story of a small-town high school quarterback star from Coldwater, Ohio, who was destined to play college football for Ohio State and then on to a pro football career. That was what it seemed until the he broke his leg on the last play to win the state championship, thus ruining his chances of the bright future he dreamed of. 

The description compared it to the movie Field of Dreams, which I think is a fair comparison, although I actually like this movie better. The plotline is fantastical, yet intriguing. 

Without giving away the entire movie, the main actor is having a hard time trying to stay afloat running the farm and finds himself desperately trying to provide for his family. His broken leg, his broken dreams haunting him in his everyday life in the small town of around 3,000 people. 

Through this crisis, he finds himself back in his senior year just a week before playing in the state championship game that ruined his chances of escaping the small town and living a life of stardom with one of the most popular girls in the school by his side. 

While this movie is a great sports movie, it is more so a love story. See, the woman he went on to marry was a less popular girl in his class who played in the band. She fell in love with him while he was recovering in the hospital after injuring his leg, as she volunteered there. 

The main emphasis and message of the movie is whether he would choose to do things differently to get the life he thought he wanted or do things the same and end up with the woman he loved and married; the movie showed him trying to get both, but she didn't want to leave Coldwater like he did. 

The message of the movie is something we all think about sometimes. Would I do things differently in life, or are we content with how things worked out? Instead of always striving for what we think is the best, maybe just being content with what God gives us is better after all. 

You can explore this question by watching the movie and hopefully be better for it in the end.