Touchback is a 2011 American sports film, written and directed by Don Handfield and starring Brian Presley, Melanie Lynskey, Kurt Russell, and Christine Lahti.

It premiered on home video in Finland and Sweden on September 28, 2011, and had a limited theatrical run in the United States the following year.

In an upcoming football game, he is to be honored in a halftime ceremony as the quarterback who brought the team to a state championship.

Scott remembers the course of his life and resolves to change events so his injury won't happen and he can take the OSU scholarship.

With his hindsight and knowledge of the outcome, he spends more quality time with his hard-working mother who has never seen him in a game and introduces himself to Macy whom he knows he will marry.

Coach shares with Scott how he receives a job offer from OSU annually only to turn it down out of love for Coldwater and its citizens.

Coach smiles and suggests a passing play, but informs Scott that based upon the Chief's defensive formation, he can call an audible as necessary, but it is his decision.

For the most part, Scott single-handedly, beat a much bigger high school team that had eight defensive players already signed to NCAA Division I scholarships.

Additional filming occurred in Grand Rapids, Ravenna Township and River View High School in Warsaw, Ohio.

[3] Joe Leydon of Variety called it "A lightweight and overlong feel-good drama that plays like a mashup of It's a Wonderful Life and Friday Night Lights.