The film was released at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2011 and in limited theaters on December 2, 2011.
Plot summary
Star Lacrosse player Conor Sullivan is not excited about moving to an unknown town and being the new kid at high school. He has a new love interest, Brooklyn, but he struggles to find a meaning to his life.
Conor's Marine father Seamus is redeployed into Iraq where he dies in combat leaving Conor in shock and denial as he starts acting out in self-destructive ways. This greatly worries his mother Claire. There is also a violent on-field clash with ahis long-time nemesis, Dupree, and a vandalism incident that lands him in a jail cell and finally gets him kicked off the team. To regain his obvious passion for the sport, he goes for arduous training in a wilderness Lacrosse camp. The camp is under the tutelage of his dead father's old combat buddy, Sgt. Major Duke Wayne, who opens Conor's eyes to the true meaning of maturity, sportsmanship and manhood.