Gridiron Gang is a 2006 American biographical sports drama film directed by Phil Joanou, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, Kevin Dunn, Leon Rippy and L. Scott Caldwell.

He is frustrated at not being able to help the kids get away from their life problems when they are released from the center, such as street gangs and drug dealings.

Porter picks out a few he feels will benefit from this program and requires that they practice with him the following day.

The game starts out somewhat positive for the Mustangs, as they recover a fumble on the first drive, but things quickly turn.

Kilpatrick is almost forced to forfeit the playoff game due to concerns about further gang violence, and Coach Porter had to convince everyone that football helped the players break away from their usual problems also developing a bond, but Porter's boss steps in and arranges for volunteers from neighboring police departments to patrol the game.

Nearly all the former members of the Mustangs are doing well in their new lives outside the detention center: Willie Weathers is playing football at a top boarding school.

Junior Palaita got a job working for a furniture company and Leon Hayes is playing football for Dorsey High.

In all, 24 of the players are continuing their educations, three are working full-time jobs, and only five are back in jail.

It is set and filmed at Agoura Hills, Camp Kilpatrick, Los Angeles, San Fernando and Westlake Village, California, in 92 days between May 23 and August 23, 2005.

The website's consensus reads, "The role of probation officer Sean Porter fits Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson like a glove; however, the execution is so clichéd, the youths' stories (based on real events), fail to inspire.