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Manny's Orphans is a 1978 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham. The film was also distributed under the title Kick. Of the film, writer Victor Miller said: "Steve Miner came up with the idea for it and I wrote the screenplay and we did it, another low-budget film [along with Here Come the Tigers], and shot it around Bridgeport, Connecticut." Director Cunningham said: "We had this notion of a bunch of orphans in a halfway house, they put together a soccer team and the underdog wins. So we raised the money to do what became known as Manny's Orphans. It was a lot of fun to make, and again I loved working with the kids. I really thought it was going to be a breakthrough film for me." Cunningham also maintains that the reaction was "lukewarm", and although United Artists optioned it as a pilot for a TV series, they did not buy it.
Original Release
01/02/1978
US Release
01/02/1978
Cast
Name | Character |
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Malachy McCourt | Father Arch McCoy |
Chet Doherty | Dr. Berryman |
Xavier Rodrigo | Raoul |
Melissa Valentin | Pepe |
Ari Lehman | Roger |
Michael Brown | Billy |
Rouviere Santana | Petey |
Michael Moses | Harry |
David Schmalholz | Bobby |
Max McClellan | Tony |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Malachy McCourt | Father Arch McCoy |
Chet Doherty | Dr. Berryman |
Xavier Rodrigo | Raoul |
Melissa Valentin | Pepe |
Ari Lehman | Roger |
Michael Brown | Billy |
Rouviere Santana | Petey |
Michael Moses | Harry |
David Schmalholz | Bobby |
Max McClellan | Tony |
Richard Ross | Joey |
Jay Schmalholz | Eddie |
Ted Oyama | Lee |
John Crocket | Scoop |
Philip Dalmage | Lunarlandscape |
Marlon Acuna | Jimmy |
Todd Weeks | Blinky - Creighton Hall boy |
Gregory Leiser | Perc (Creighton Hall boy) |
Andy Weeks | Gordy (Creighton Hall boy) |
Noel Cunningham | Berty (Creighton Hall boy) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Sean S. Cunningham | Producer |
Steve Miner | Producer |