Release Year: 1999 Rating: R Duration: 150 minutes Other Title: Gridiron, Monday Night, Playing Hurt, The League Director: Oliver Stone Producer: Oliver Stone, Clayton Townsend, Dan Halsted Distributor: Warner Brothers
"Any Given Sunday" is a behind the scenes look at the life and death struggles of modern day gladiators and those who lead them.
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Al Pacino as Tony D'Amato Ann-Margret as Margaret Pagniacci Bill Bellamy as Jimmy Sanderson Cameron Diaz as Christina Pagniacci Charlton Heston as Commissioner Dennis Quaid as Jack 'Cap' Rooney Elizabeth Berkley as Mandy Murphy James Woods as Dr. Harvey Mandrake Jamie Foxx as Willie Beamen LL Cool J as Julian Washington Lauren Holly as Cindy Rooney Lela Rochon as Vanessa Struthers
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Tony D'Amato: Now I can't do it for ya, I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I've pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me. And lately, I cant even stand the face I see in the mirror.
I can see a decent sports movie struggling to break free of Oliver Stone's `Any Given Sunday'. It's an entertaining movie that offers both insight and excitement into the rock-em, sock-em profession of pro football. Unfortunately, the director seems to have only one priority on his mind: sprucing up the film with an assortment of fancy camera maneuvers. In altering each frame with quick-flash photography and dizzying, in-your-face editing, Stone appears to have completely ignored the matter of plausible character development and football politics. We see glimpses of greatness, but `Any Given Sunday' has its agenda all tangled in technical gobbledy-gook. It grows tiresome and monotonous. Yes, Stone has pulled a Brian DePalma.
