In the loose tradition of tales of sports uplift like Field of Dreams and Angels in the Outfield, Touchback tells the story of an ex-high school football star who gets another crack at glory. But it’s really only interesting in that it stars Brian Presley, who became something of an Internet sensation earlier this year when he was outed by a model, Melissa Stetten, for allegedly drinking and trying to hit on her during a cross-country flight. No biggie, right? No harm, no foul. Well… Presley is a married man, Evangelical Christian, and a guy who’s made a public deal out of his sobriety. Whoops. So there’s that.

Oh, but… the movie itself, right? Twenty years removed from ripping up his knee in a state championship game, small town farmer and family man Scott Murphy (Presley) is struggling to support his wife Macy (Melanie Lynskey) and their two young daughters. Presented with a unique opportunity to revisit his glory days but also tempted by his old high school flame (Sarah Wright), Scott turns to his old mentor, Coach Hand (Kurt Russell), for advice and guidance.

Location filming (in Ohio and Michigan) gives the movie a bit of nice production value, but Friday Night Lights (both the movie and the TV show) mined similar terrain much more effectively. The lines of narrative conflict in writer-director Don Handfield’s movie are obvious and smooth; full of homilies, this is cinema as a little comfort-laden snack cake. The public-private contrast of Presley-as-Scott and then the story (whatever really happened) of his run-in with the tart, witty Stetten is the only thing that gives Touchback any pop or value, just because of its amusing, extra-textual contrast.

Housed in a typical case, Touchback comes to home video in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack, stored in the typical slimline Blu-ray case. The video presentation is a 1080p, 1.78:1 non-anamorphic transfer, free of grain or edge enhancement issues. Audio comes by way of a TrueHD 5.1 surround sound track, with optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles as well. Bonus features consist of a feature-length audio commentary track with Presley and Handfield, as well as a threadbare, six-minute making-of featurette. It’s a shrug and a wash, really, these back-slapping inclusions. I’m sure Stetten’s audio commentary track to this would be the bomb, though; she should record one and offer it up for complementary sale via her own website. After all, she already crushes impressions. To purchase the Blu-ray via Amazon, click here. C- (Movie) C+ (Disc)