“Back in ’82, I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile… How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?… Yeah… Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would’ve been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.”
Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite is one of my all-time favorite film characters. How futile must it be to spend your whole life lamenting over a moment in high school that remained unfulfilled — so much so that you’re willing to buy a “time machine” from eBay in order to relive that chance? I’m sorry to say that I’ve known many people who are what I call “Uncle Ricos” who lament constantly over past missed opportunities. None have been desperate enough to buy an eBay time machine, though.
So I couldn’t help but smirk when I read Deadline‘s report about Anchor Bay acquiring the rights to release Brian Presley‘s next film, titled Touchback, early next year. What does that have to do with Napoleon Dynamite‘s least favorite uncle? Deadline describes the movie’s plot as “Presley stars as a struggling farmer and former football hero who laments scoring the winning touchdown in the Ohio State High School Championship game years ago, because he injured his knee and was robbed of a pro career. He goes back in time to the week before the game and struggles over whether to call a different play, and whether he should marry his high school sweetheart.” So where Uncle Rico fails, Brian Presley succeeds!
Also starring in the film are Kurt Russell, Melanie Lynskey, Christine Lahti, Drew Powell and Marc Blucas. Touchback was written and directed by Don Handfield, who is making his theatrical writing and directing debut.
“Ohhhh, man I wish I could go back in time. I’d take state. “
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