Al Pacino, Ann Margret, Bill Bellamy

Although professional football provides the action-packed backdrop of Any Given Sunday, the film takes a simultaneously epic and intimate look at the men and women who comprise the milieu of the film,...( read more  read more... ) from the modern-day gladiators of the gridiron, their coaches and often beleaguered families, to the moneyed team owners and business concerns who attempt to control the game as big business, to the hungry sports media, and hangers-on trying to get a taste of the glamour.

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R, 2 hrs. 45 min.

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Release Date: December 22, 1999

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DVD Release Date: September 5, 2000

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  • March 28, 2009
    Never before has something I have no interest in, been so exciting. I'm not a real fan of any sport and American Football is something I find mostly dull. Stone manages to create an instantly unforgettable opening. He knows sports movies will only play to a certain crowd, so he d...( read more)ives into the world of football, not just the sport itself. We're taken on a fast and frantic tour. We see the game itself, the commentators, the journalists, the business women, the coaches etc. It makes the game feel so technical and calculated that it really feels like a battle. Over the course of the film we also get glimpses of the medical aspect and even the religious side. The character drama is also present. Every ying has a yang and all sides are represented fairly. The editing and acting are both powerful and used sparingly. The script itself gives enough time to each character and situation and has some excellent dialog. All star cast in an all star film that isn't just for American Football fans.
  • February 1, 2009
    "Looks like he got damage to his eye."

    I watched this on a Sunday, on the eve of the Superbowl. I'm not a big fan of American football, mainly watched this because of the cast and Oliver Stone. Wish I wouldn't had.

    "Any Given Sunday" is just another basic sports movie, only wor...( read more)se. All of the clichés are here; an injured legend of the game, a young player who thinks his the next big thing in the league, machobullshit player stuff etc.

    For example all the women in the movie are portrayed as cheap bitches who are only after the money. The players have similar interests. Stone got me confused by adding stills and short clips of old games and legendary players. I don't know if he meant it like the game hasn't changed and its all about winning the last game.

    Like in the quote that I put in the beginning, the editing made me feel exactly like that. One of the worst edited films I've ever seen. Short takes with a shaky camera. Just awful. The images are supported with one of the worst soundtracks ever made.

    "On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose."

    Well, I definitely lost. I still have fond memories of Stone. Just wish that I can forget this cliché filled movie.
  • November 28, 2008
    "Life is a contact sport."

    Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little enthusiasm for the finer points of the game and is concerned only with ...( read more)the bottom line. The longtime strongman of Tony's team has been "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid), a 39-year-old quarterback, but Christina balks at renewing his contract. When Cap is injured during a game, third-string rookie quarterback Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx) goes on in his place and becomes a major star. But Beamen is mostly interested in fame and money, and he has little regard for Tony and his teammates.

    Review
    Despite some great game footage, overacting by everyone from Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz to Oliver Stone himself as a sportscaster render this look at pro football trite and irrelevant.

    An added disappointment is the lack of attention to details that lends a sense of authenticity to most of Oliver Stone's films. When is the last time anyone has seen a pro football coach wearing black blazers on the sideline? Moreover, character development happens because the screenwriter thought it would be cool, not because it was evolved from the story. For example, Jamie Foxx's Willie Beamen goes from a confused humble kid to trash talking homeboy in a matter of minutes.

    All in all, Any Given Sunday is a must to avoid. If you want a great inside look at pro football, rent North Dallas Forty instead.
  • August 23, 2008
    Good movie! So many good actors in this. Cameron Diaz in particular was very good.
  • July 17, 2008
    By the end - two and a half hours later - I still couldn't really tell if Oliver Stone likes football or not. He did a great job of showing football's grotesques, from the owner's box down to the fans in the stands, and of course Pacino and Quaid took the ball and ran with it (so...( read more) to speak). But how is it that this film can be so evidently ironic, and yet among the favourites of some of the dumbest leatherheads I know? A couple of great performances and some classic Stone action sequences, I guess, but the fact that people can glory in this film astounds me. It's darker than The Program, but it's too glossy for us to notice; and on top of that, the sound mixing is so bad that, if the lines are any good, they're lost in the background noise of the crowd or what have you. I can understand that Stone was going for the same sensory overload he gave us in Platoon, but if his point was to say something about football, ideally, the dialogue would've been audible and not treated like the throwaway lines of every sports movie out there.

    Treating the writing in such a way may prove that even the director didn't know what he was trying to do (or that maybe he was just trying to make an overly dramatized but still cliched sports movie), and it makes me wonder tangentially why these movies that can be said to have "something for everyone" in them are so highly praised. This one flip-flops from one direction to the other, and all in all it's a tough one to stick with. Every time you want to turn it off something just a little bit too interesting happens. It just barely passes, and a great performance by Pacino (one of his last before becoming essentially a cartoon character) goes to waste. Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz are both underwhelming, and though the former was on his way up, the latter was already declining... but hey, there is that famous Pacino pre-game speech!
  • November 19, 2009
    At the 50-yard line of this gridiron cosmos is Tony D'Amato, tthe embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy Sharks owner who's sure Tony is way too Old School.

    An injured quarterback, a flashy, bull-headed QB, a slithery team docto...( read more)r and a running back with an incentive-laden contract also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook.

    stars Cameron Diaz, Al Pacino, Ann Margret, Bill Bellamy, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Matthew Modine, Jamie Foxx and LL Cool J.

    directed by Oliver Stone.
  • October 29, 2009
    The best movie about football Ive ever seen
  • October 29, 2009
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • October 20, 2009
    That's a team, gentlemen, and either, we heal, now, as a team,or we will die as individuals. That's football guys, that's all it is.
  • October 17, 2009
    Not being a fan of American Football ..I wasn't sure what to expect, however with the cast involved I thought I'd give it a go..Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) struggles to keep his job and to keep his team of athletes from falling apart.. dont waste a great opportunity thats the messag...( read more)e...The movie is brutal and direct to the point it had me captivated from beginning to end..if you're obsessive about sport then it's a must-watch.

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

We're reminded that very little movie material is original until actors transform it from cliches into particulars. full review

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  • jimmorrison713
    July 12, 2007
    this movie wasnt horrible but it wasnt worth a second watch. Dennis quaid is about the worst actor in the history of films..
  • bigbanger1
    February 11, 2007
    See, here's the inheriant problem with football movies...you have to film and to film and follow the script, you have to set up plays...when you set up football plays, it looks too contrived and make believe...the story was lovely and captures the problems of being a professional football player: woman, money, injuries, old age and more...this is one movie i have to have when i go on road trips (especially in my chosen profession of College football coach...)
  • ViolentByDesign
    October 21, 2006
    The douche bag below me (note:posted 53 days ago) obviously doesn't know how to enjoy a movie... what did you watch it for you shit head?

    There was definitely more to this movie than drugs, sex, and females; and there was definitely a lot more to this movie than football, infact, I found football was just a medium to portray so many important themes that should be noticed more often in life.

    You need to get a better taste in movies... and possibly a brain.
  • codyjohnson117
    August 28, 2006
    It was pretty stupid... All about women, drug, drinking, and being rich. Nothing that is about football a lot. I only like football action, that's about it. One thump down.

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