1. Fourth quarter comebacks: Miami, Wake Forest and Clemson were all trailing with 10 minutes or less to go before rallying to win. Even more impressively, the Hurricanes and Tigers did it on the road.
HIGH POINT - As manager of the Emergency Department at High Point Regional Hospital, Meg Cashion knows a thing or two about intense drama.
But Cashion's Thursday morning shift represented a dramatic first for the veteran trauma nurse: She filmed a movie scene with one of Hollywood's most highly regarded movie stars, Aidan Quinn.
Movie Producers Film "The 5th Quarter" in Winston-Salem
11/2/08
Dig Triad.com
Winston-Salem, NC - Movie producers let WFMY News 2 on the set of a movie about the best football season in Wake Forest History.
To see the exclusive film, play the video to the right.
Crews are filming "The 5th Quarter all month in Winston-Salem. The movie is based on the Abbate family.
Jon Abbate played for the Deacs. During the 2006 season his younger brother Luke died in a car crash.
Jon dedicated the next season to his brother and helped lead the Deacs to a big ACC win and their first Orange Bowl appearance.
We caught up with the Abbate's who were in town to see the shoot.
"The movie is pretty close, it's pretty close," said Maryanne Abbate. "He's gone to great detail to get it right. It may not be all the sequential order because it's not a documentary but for the most part it is our lives and we appreciate all the effort he's put in to doing that," she said.
1. Fourth quarter comebacks: Miami, Wake Forest and Clemson were all trailing with 10 minutes or less to go before rallying to win. Even more impressively, the Hurricanes and Tigers did it on the road.
The Fifth Quarter to Film at Saturday's Football Game
10/29/08
Wake Forest Sports
At every Wake Forest football game, there are always plenty of cameras in the stadium. Whether they represent ESPN, Raycom, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, the Winston-Salem Journal or the Salisbury Post, photographers and videographers are anxious to capture the action on the field.
Portions of The 5th Quarter, a movie about former Wake linebacker Jon Abbate, was filmed at the Wake-Florida State football game Oct. 11. According to senior Devin Kidner, who is working with the film as a campus liaison, the camera crew was in the Gold Parking Lot scouting out the location for more filming during the game against UNC – Chapel Hill Oct. 27.
A college football player's tribute to his late brother inspired his team to a record season and now that poignant true story is headed to the big screen.
Ryan Merriman, Aidan Quinn and Andie MacDowell will play the Abbate family in Rick Bieber's indie drama "The 5th Quarter."
The lead roles have been cast for the independent film The 5th Quarter, which will start filming in Winston-Salem on Oct. 16.
The film will follow the 2006 championship football season at Wake Forest. It focuses on the story of Jon Abbate, a linebacker who devoted the season to the memory of his younger brother Luke, who was killed in a car wreck.
Sports. Aside from being a Huey Lewis and the News album, it's a slice of life that has lived for a long time in contradiction. On the one hand, there's the cud-chewing, testosterone-laden toughness of actual sporting events. On the other, there's the ever-rampant tears pouring out of sports dramas and biopics -- and now we're getting one more ...
A college football player's tribute to his late brother inspired his team to a record season, and the poignant true story is now headed for the big screen.
Ryan Merriman, Aidan Quinn and Andie MacDowell will play the Abbate family in Rick Bieber's indie drama "The 5th Quarter."
After the family's devastation after 15-year-old Luke Abbate's death in a 2006 car crash and their painful decision to donate his organs to five people, Wake Forest junior Jon Abbate (Merriman) asked his coach to change his jersey number to Luke's number, five. Just before the fourth quarter of each game, the linebacker began holding up five fingers along with his parents, Steven and Maryanne (Quinn and, in final negotiations, MacDowell) as they sat in section five of the stadium.
Ryan Merriman, Aidan Quinn and Andie MacDowell get to play the Abbate family in a film, 5th Quarter about a college football player’s tribute to his late brother. He inspired his team to a record season, and the heartfelt story is a gem for the big screen.
