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Any Given Sunday (1999)

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Reviews Counted:116

Fresh:56

Rotten:60

Average Rating:5.5/10

Consensus: Sometimes entertaining, but overall Any Given Sunday is a disappointment coming from Oliver Stone.

Runtime: 2 hrs 58 mins

Genre: Dramas

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... 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. [More]

Starring: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx

Starring: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, James Woods, Matthew Modine, Ann-Margret, Bill Bellamy, Elizabeth Berkley, Jim Caviezel, Aaron Eckhart, Charlton Heston, Lauren Holly, John C. McGinley, Lela Rochon, Lawrence Taylor

Director: Oliver Stone

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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Reviews for Any Given Sunday

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Hit and miss, certainly, but intense stuff.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 22 2008 05:34 AM

Channel 4 Film

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Geoff Andrew

A meathead burlesque.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 24 2006 04:01 AM

Time Out

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4/5

Clark Collis

Despite the film's multifarious faults, which also include a truly rotten cameo from Stone himself as a sports commentator, there can be no argument that this is one of the most visually exciting experiences you will have this year...

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 03 2001 04:56 PM

Empire Magazine

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Mark Kermode

Any Given Sunday may fall on its face a few times during the game, but wouldn't you rather watch a team going recklessly for the touchdown than playing safely for time?

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 17 2001 05:00 PM

Sight and Sound

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8/10

Ian Waldron-Mantgani

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

UK Critic

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3/4

Peter Canavese

Stone isn't interested in merely bashing modern football: Any Given Sunday looks at the best and worst of the sport.

[Blu-ray]

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 10 2009 12:40 PM

Groucho Reviews

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5/10

John J. Puccio

...it's hard to tell if Stone was making a serious sports movie here or a parody of a sports movie.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 26 2009 10:28 AM

DVDTown.com

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1/4

Jules Brenner

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 18 2008 05:32 AM

Cinema Signals

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Richard Schickel

Almost three hours of this jitter deteriorates from bravura filmmaking to annoying mannerism, and Any Given Sunday ends up less than the sum of its many, often interesting parts.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 22 2008 05:36 AM

TIME Magazine

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1/5

Rob Gonsalves

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 23 2007 07:05 AM

eFilmCritic.com

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2/4

Joe Lozito

With few surprises and little to say in this film, it is unclear why Oliver Stone was interested in making it in the first place.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 14 2007 04:54 AM

Big Picture Big Sound

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74/100

Philip Martin

Stone's hilariously broad and belabored critique of American sports culture ...

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 28 2006 01:29 PM

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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B+

Robin Clifford

This isn't the best film by Oliver Stone, but it is a first-rate job nonetheless.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 09 2005 03:59 AM

Reeling Reviews

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3/5

Pablo Villaca

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.

comment Comment | Apr., 16 2004 11:04 PM

Cinema em Cena

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0/4

Chuck Walton

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 05 2003 08:19 AM

Hollywood.com

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C

Eugene Novikov

Loud, long and exhausting.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 22 2003 05:21 PM

Film Blather

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2/4

Leonard Schwarz

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 20 2003 05:22 PM

Palo Alto Weekly

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4/5

John R. McEwen

Any Given Sunday doesn't disappoint from an acting standpoint; with a cast like this it could hardly miss.

Full Review Source: | comment 1 Comment | Feb., 08 2003 08:09 AM

Film Quips Online

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B-

Brent Simon

A solidly-acted action-drama hybrid whose cartoonish asides largely undermine the greater subtext.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 16 2003 03:00 PM

Entertainment Today

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2/5

Chris Gore

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 08 2002 08:12 AM

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