Hailed by Variety as "the best sports documentary since Hoop Dreams," Go Tigers! presents a vivid portrait of the people of Massillon, Ohio, where the community interest in the high school football team goes far beyond obsession. Massillon native Kenneth Carlson captures the excitement and extreme pressures the student-athletes face, as well as the impact the sport has on such serious matters as a proposed tax levy. The film captures the good and the bad of Massillon's worship of the pigskin, from the genuine community spirit it inspires to acts of corruption, such as deliberately holding students back a year so they will be bigger and stronger when it's their turn to be a Tiger.

Kenneth A. Carlson---USA---2001---103 mins.

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