Movie Info
Oscar® winners George Clooney and Renée Zellweger match wits in Leatherheads, a quick-witted romantic comedy set against the backdrop of Americas nas...(read more...)cent pro-football league in 1925.
Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero who is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the countrys attention.
Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski), Americas favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexi Littleton (Zellweger) aims to prove thats the case.
A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexi is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carters war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections.
As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter...
Director:
George Clooney
MPAA: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hr. 54 min.
Release Date: Dec 31, 2007
Cast:
Ezra Buzzington,
George Clooney,
John Krasinski,
Jonathan Pryce,
Matt Bushell,
Ren?e Zellweger,
Robert Baker,
Stephen Root,
Wayne Duvall
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