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The 5th Quarter is a March 25th theatrical movie release, and a Festival Prize winner and the Boston Film Festival, that tells the remarkable true story of the Abbate family and the 2006 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football season.
Luke Abbate was nearing his 16th birthday when he and two friends were involved in a serious accident with an uninhibited driver. Luke suffered serious brain damage and died two days after the accident in February 2006. Realizing that Luke was gone, Steven (Aidan Quinn) and Maryanne (Andie McDowell) Abbate made the difficult decision to donate Lukes organs to five recipients, including a young mother suffering from heart disease.
Tremendous community support was shown the Abbate family in the aftermath of the accident. Older brother Jon (Ryan Merriman), a college football player for the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, struggled to decide whether to return to play for his junior season in the fall of 2006.
After initially thinking he would not play, Jon was persuaded to play on in the spirit of his brother. His leadership and contributions were a major factor in the best record in the history of the Deacons program, 11-2 in 2006.
Another fascinating side note to that football season was the way in which Jon and the Wake Forest fans honored Lukes memory. Jon got permission to switch his jersey number to 5, in honor of Lukes high school football number. Early in the season, before the fourth quarter of each game, Luke and his parents would signal 5 fingers to each other. As the season went on, Jons teammates and fans caught on and The 5th Quarter became a major symbol of the 2006 football season at Wake Forest.
Unfortunately, The 5th Quarter movie struggles to live up to the remarkable nature of the real story of Luke Abbate and his familys spirit.
Despite a collection of solidly talented individual cast members, writer and director Rick Bieber has a hard time putting together a ninety minute depiction that gives audiences a genuine understanding of exactly how impacting Luke Abbates life was. His death led to directly to five lives being impacted through organ donation. The Wake Forest football team and its tens of thousands of community members credited much of the 2006 teams success to the inspiration of Luke and Jons leadership.
Aidan Quinn is a very talented actor who does a fairly decent job connecting to the mixed emotions of a father after his son dies. Andie McDowell is equally credible as the grieving mother. The 5th Quarter
Ryan Merriman is a somewhat accomplished actor with 21 films to his credits. He is a star on the ABC Familys hit series Pretty Little Liars. However, delving into the genuine feelings of how the real Jon Abbate must have felt in 2006 is a bit much to ask any young actor. Merriman gives a game effort, but many of his scenes immediately after the death are awkward at best. The 5th Quarter
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