Memorable Movie Quotes
Kevin: You wanna play with no rules, you better be careful what you let outta the box.
Trivia
The chase scene at PNC Park was filmed on August 22, 2010, during an actual game. The Pirates beat the Mets 2-1. John Singleton wanted to film a chase scene there, which was not in the script, with a small crew with Taylor Lautner doing his own stunts.
Shawn Christensen said that the story for the film was taken from a single idea of a teenager who sees a photo of himself on a missing persons website. He completed the first draft in two months.
Taylor Lautner did the vast majority of his own stunts.
Goofs
Protective headgear is required to be worn in high school wrestling in Pennsylvania (and most of the United States), yet none of the wrestlers are wearing any.
In the finale, you see Taylor sitting next to the villain with a gun taped to the bottom of the chair as if he had planted it before hand. In PNC stadium the seats (in the section they were in) flip up when not being used. The gun would have been in plain sight before Taylor sat down.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget: $35,000,000
Gross: $28,064,226
Filming Locations
PNC Park – 115 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
308 Bigbee Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (Dr. Bennett’s Office)
Brownsville, Pennsylvania, USA
Sutersville, Pennsylvania, USA