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Any Given Sunday

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Any Given Sunday (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 107 Fresh: 51  Rotten:56 Average Rating: 5.5/10
 
Consensus: Sometimes entertaining, but overall Any Given Sunday is a disappointment coming from Oliver Stone. Sometimes entertaining, but overall Any Given Sunday is a disappointment coming from Oliver Stone. more
 
Runtime: 2 hrs 58 mins
Synopsis:
Oliver Stone delves into his love-hate relationship with pro football in this high-impact film, thriving on the game's adrenaline rush while revealing its ultimate corruption. When legendary Miami Sharks quarterback Cap Rooney (Dennis Quaid) is badly injured in a game, coach Tony... [More]
Oliver Stone delves into his love-hate relationship with pro football in this high-impact film, thriving on the game's adrenaline rush while revealing its ultimate corruption. When legendary Miami Sharks quarterback Cap Rooney (Dennis Quaid) is badly injured in a game, coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) is forced to reach deep into his bench for Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx). The third-stringer's injury-plagued career and difficulty with maintaining focus make him a dubious commodity at best. But Beamen, aware of what this opportunity could mean, starts playing at a much higher level than ever before, planting championship hopes in the minds of Miami fans. The extraordinary success of Beamen, an athlete whose flamboyance contradicts everything the Lombardi-like D'Amato believes about the game, makes the coach wonder whether his time is passing. To add to his problems, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), a young woman who has inherited ownership of the team from her late father, is pressuring him to win now, and at any cost. Will D'Amato be able to pull the team together for a final run at the championship? The film conveys a vivid sense of the atmosphere of pro football and features a finely modulated performance by Pacino. [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J

Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone, John Logan
Producer: Dan Halsted, Lauren Shuler Donner, Oliver Stone, Clayton Townsend
Composer: Richard Horowitz

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Jul 1, 2002

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Any Given Sunday is content to document, observe and convey. While it does all these things well, a little more passion would not have gone amiss.

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You'd have to be a very undiscriminating football die-hard to get anything out of it.

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07/23/07 07:05 AM
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07/14/07 04:54 AM
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Stone's hilariously broad and belabored critique of American sports culture ...

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03/28/06 01:29 PM
Philip Martin
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This isn't the best film by Oliver Stone, but it is a first-rate job nonetheless.

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04/09/05 03:59 AM
Robin Clifford
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Os excessos visuais de Stone (tão bem utilizados em seus trabalhos anteriores) e o fraco terceiro ato, mais conveniente do que o apropriado, comprometem o resultado final.

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Pablo Villaca
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05/20/03 05:22 PM
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly
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Any Given Sunday doesn't disappoint from an acting standpoint; with a cast like this it could hardly miss.

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02/08/03 08:09 AM
John R. McEwen
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A solidly-acted action-drama hybrid whose cartoonish asides largely undermine the greater subtext.

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01/16/03 03:00 PM
Brent Simon
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Ultimately, Any Given Sunday will disappoint football fans and won't win any new converts to the game, and worse, is just a painful film to watch

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12/08/02 08:12 AM
Chris Gore
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The cast does an impressive job.

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10/15/02 08:09 AM
Margaret A. McGurk
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...the movie remains watchable if only for Pacino's amazing performance and the action-packed football sequences.

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09/25/02 12:46 PM
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Never has so much talent been wasted in such cinematic chaos.

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