“Rudy” is a movie about a football player named Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger Jr. whose dream is to play football on Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish football team. He is not expecting to be a starter, but he wants to fulfill his lifelong dream by being on the field in uniform and make one play during the season and get his name in the smallest part of the school’s sports archives. It was a cool dream for him to have, except that everyone around him thinks that his dream is insane.

Rudy comes from a working class family in Joliet, Ill. Everyone in his own family and everyone else he knows not only tells him that he lacks the brawn to even play football, but also lacks the brains to get into a top college such as Notre Dame. Rudy continually persists, but does he achieve his dream? Watch the movie to find out.