The premise of The Senior probably would be tossed out at every studio for being totally ludicrous. But the fact is this new film about 59-year-old construction boss Mike Flynt who went back to his alma mater Sui Ross State University in Texas to finish his senior year and try out for the college football team and make NCAA history is true. It really happened, and that fact would be enough to make it a worthwhile underdog sports movie, but it is actually so much more.

Michael Chiklis is perfectly cast as Flynt, a man happily married to Eileen ( Mary Stuart Masterson ) and content in his career but still living with one deep regret that he never finished his senior year as middle linebacker and captain on the Lobos team after getting kicked out for breaking the nose of another s

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