Any Given Sunday (1999)Starring: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid
As in most sports movies, and especially the football variety, great coaching characters can make the movie. In Any Give Sunday Pacino is fantastic, if extremely exaggerated, as Coach D'Amato. Cameron Diaz, per the usual, puts a damper on the whole thing, but between Pacino, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J and Lawrence Taylor, there are plenty of positives to bring it back up to par. I love that they couldn't use any of the actual NFL teams or logos, because it was such a negative portrayal of professional football. When it comes down to it, Pacino's final game speech is one of the best and gives the film the number eight spot.
Honestly the speech from this movie was played in my locker room all four years of college. Again, great post kid good movie.
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