[4] Taking place in the 1960s, My All American recounts the life of a young Freddie Steinmark and his dream of playing football in college.

During his time on the high school football team, he meets Bobby, his best friend and teammate, and his longtime girlfriend Linda.

The Longhorns’ head coach, Darrell Royal, allows Freddie and his best friend Bobby to play collegiate football, and Linda also enrolls at the university.

Bobby’s older brother dies fighting in the Vietnam War overseas, and Freddie begins to feel pain in his knee.

[5] On May 16, 2014, it was announced that Sarah Bolger and Robin Tunney had been cast in the roles of Linda Wheeler and Freddie's mother Gloria Steinmark, respectively.

[7][8] The film was originally scheduled to be released on October 9, 2015, in the United States by Clarius Entertainment [9] It was pushed back to November 13, 2015.

The site's consensus reads, "My All American has a genuinely moving real-life story to tell, but writer-director Angelo Pizzo fumbles it into manipulative, melodramatic tearjerker territory.