The Best of Times

The Best of Times (1986)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 40% of users liked it
    (6,325 ratings)

Small-town banker Robin Williams has never been able to live down the fact that he dropped an important pass during a crucial high-school football game. Likewise tainted for life is the team's star quarterback Kurt Russell, now a garage owner. Fed up with living his life under a cloud, Williams… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 31, 1986 Wide
Sultan Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Walter Goodman, New York Times

    Such a rouser that it almost makes up for the incomplete passes and stopped runs that precede it.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Nostalgic fantasy about replaying that high school game with all the jock pals.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Speaks to our fantasies of rectifying mistakes of the past but drops the ball on a satire on small town foibles and marital discord.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Forgotten by most yet seemingly adored by those who choose to remember it, The Best of Times stands in my book as one of the truly great sports comedies.

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  • Daniel P


    Movies for a rainy Saturday afternoon. One of the corniest movies you'll ever see, a real one-trick pony: what if you could replay that one moment in life where it all went wrong? Terrible, hackneyed dialogue and mailed-in performances by Williams and Russell. Williams's… More

  • Dann M


    The Best of Times is an entertaining and fun screwball comedy that's a bit dated, but still delivers the laughs. The story follows Jack Dundee, former high school football player who lost the big game senior year, but attempts to redeem himself and lift the spirits of his small… More

  • Nicky M


    A mediocre film about chasing lost glory that never really finds it's way.

  • Leo L


    Great movie.

  • Anthony V


    Um, not a winning, offbeat classic. A bland, neither hot nor cold kind of yawn.

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