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IN CINEMAS APRIL 2008
Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero who is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks.
Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski), America’s favourite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton (Zellweger) aims to prove that’s the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter’s war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections.

Release: 2008
Running Time: 114 min

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  1. Football comedy without drive

    06 December 2008
    Particularly commendable for its 1920s production design, as well as it's period costumes and soundtrack. Clearly George Clooney has a love of early U.S. football history but also of screwball comedies of the 1930s. He has often been compared to matinee idols such as Cary Grant and indeed he does share some of the mannerisms of that star. This movie shares the reporter-based theme, and fast-talking performance style, of His Girl Friday which starred Grant. Whereas Grant was far more deadpanned, Clooney is working in a clearly comic register. Although the elements are in place for an interesting film, they ultimately do not gel. The story itself does not have nearly enough drive to hold interest and it's only really worth watching for touches of the performances of Clooney and Zellwegger.

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