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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance /
Sport
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Release:
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Director:
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George Clooney
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Actors:
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Wayne Duvall,
Tim Griffin,
David de Vries,
Rick Forrester,
Craig S. Harper,
Nick Paonessa,
Lance Barber,
Nicholas Bourdages,
Jason Drago,
John Krasinski,
George Clooney,
Malcolm Goodwin,
Matt Bushell,
Tommy Hinkley,
Robert Baker
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Duration:
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114 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)118
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Plot Summary:
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A impassioned comedy sally forth in the people of 1920s football, where the owner of a educated conspire drafts a level-laced college sensation, only to observe his unique tutor slump for his fianc?e.
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Leatherheads
Todd McCarthyIn his third spin behind the camera, George Clooney attempts one of the hardest things there is to do -- re-create the fizz of old Hollywood screwball comedies -- and creates just a mild buzz. Leatherheads, a larky romp about the early days of professional football, aims only to please and proves perfectly amiable, but ultimate effect is one of much energy expended to minimal payoff. Arch and funny in equal measure, this looks like a theatrical non-starter that Clooney fans and football devotees might be tempted to check out down the line on DVD or on the tube.
It???s always been hard to interest modern moviegoers in the early days of even the most popular sports -- A League of Their Own seems the well-liked anomaly in the field -- and Clooney goes a...
Leatherheads
Carina ChocanoGiven the contemporary imperative to put movies into boxes neatly sorted by function, it's hard to know what to make of Leatherheads, a light, charming, well-executed pastiche of a 1930s screwball comedy that alternates between witty repartee and (less successfully) broad slapstick. Written 17 years ago by sportswriters Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly and passed around like a football since, the movie plays like a loving homage to the comedies of George Cukor and Preston Sturges. It doesn't quite live up to them, but then that wouldn't be possible.
Like the nostalgia trip that inspired it, Leatherheads leaves you wondering why people don't talk/act/dress like that anymore and what Ren??e Zellweger is doing in that hat. (Not that she doesn't look g...
Dull, dull, dull!
I will spare you a proper review and just move onto the verdict.
This film is supremely boring. Clooney and Zellweger present the most irritating characters to screen with the overall humour of the film all too knowing and cheesy.
This is another boring American football film which may have went down well in the US but not anywhere else.
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