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Special Features
- Commentary by director Taylor Hackford and screenwriter Tom Rickman
- Additional scenes with optional commentary by director Taylor Hackford and screenwriter Tom Rickman
- Vintage making-of featurettes: "Behind the Scenes" and "A Football Story"
- Theatrical Trailer
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Amazon.com
When the cheering and MVP perks stop, what then? This ambitious adaptation of Frank Deford's novel about three tumultuous decades in the lives of a Washington Redskins football star and his two biggest fans attempts to answer this question. Dennis Quaid has his rangiest role to date as Gavin Grey, who goes, De Niro-like, from sinewy gridiron Adonis to embittered has-been with sizable beer gut. Jessica Lange brings her customary class and inner strength to Babs, the Louisiana State homecoming queen who marries college sweetheart Gavin and forfeits her identity; Timothy Hutton is Donnie, Gavin's cousin who secretly pines for the neglected Babs. But it's big guy John Goodman in one of his first screen roles who blasts through in this cross between The Way We Were and North Dallas Forty. Taylor Hackford, no slouch at epic melodramas (The Devil's Advocate), directed from a script by Tom Rickman (Oscar-nominated for Coal Miner's Daughter). Gavin's two-hours-later epiphany? "There's more to life than making touchdowns." --Glenn Lovell
Product Description
A LOUISIANA FOOTBALL LEGEND STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH LIFE'S COMPLEXITIES AFTER HIS COLLEGE CAREER IS OVER.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This is an overlooked film from 1988, and perhaps the best performance in Quaid's career. Director Taylor Hackford has had an uneven career, but this stands as one of his best movies so far. Quaid is the a star college football player who marries the homecoming queen (Jessica Lange) and SLOWLY comes to realize that the fame and glory of his college days won't carry him in the real world of professional football and the years after. Lange gets top billing (contractually), but it is Quaid's movie. This should have been his Oscar-nominated performance.
Hackford (or careful editing) pulls back before certain moments fall into sappy sentimentality. But the period detail is meticulous and perfect, and certain pressings of this video come with the dialog-only (no music) trailer for 1989's "Batman", one of the unintentionally best movie trailers ever.
Hackford (or careful editing) pulls back before certain moments fall into sappy sentimentality. But the period detail is meticulous and perfect, and certain pressings of this video come with the dialog-only (no music) trailer for 1989's "Batman", one of the unintentionally best movie trailers ever.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Adrian T.
Format:VHS Tape
I loved this movie. I'm not a big football fan, but there was enough sports and enough romance to keep both me and my husband entertained throughout the movie.
It's a peek into into the turbulent and chaotic life of a diehard, aging football hero who never let's the team down, and his beautiful, naive, trophy wife.
Throughout the entire movie, you are routing for both the team and the marriage. When you think that love has lost, it's just begininng.
If anyone knows who sings the ending song, I think it's called, "It's Forever", please email me with the artist's name.
Thanks-
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
I loved this movie but no one mentions Timothy Hutton in their reviews. I thought he nearly stole the show, and I loved every scene with him. Very entertaining with a mix of live action sports romance and great 50/60 tunes. Lange is gorgeous.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Decades of life
Serious story about a star athlete who lives through about 4 different phrases of life a jock ex jock falling husband and family man
Published 4 days ago by irven hill
5.0 out of 5 stars
As good as when I first saw it!
I first saw this movie nearly twenty years ago and it immediately became a favorite. Since that first time I may have seen it another two times and was always compelled to watch... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rico S.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dennis Quaid is a true hero.
This movie tracks a football star and beauty queens life. The Pro-Football scenes are very realistic because they used real retired pro-football players. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sci Fi Lover
5.0 out of 5 stars
kirk dodge
fantastic cameo, great plays by broncos player kirk dodge. should be more movies like this. genuine smile and charisma brought to the screen
Published 5 months ago by eric
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Glory Days, They'll Pass You By..."--Bruce Springsteen
I have loved this wonderful piece of American nostalgia since the late 1980's, watching it yearly still. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Sheryl Fechter
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Exceptional Drama
Directed by Taylor Hackford, this exceptional 1988 drama not only deals with the vicissitudes of a 25-year marriage, but also the fleeting aspects of fame. Read more
Published on February 4, 2009 by Michael B. Druxman
5.0 out of 5 stars
"I am the luckiest man that has ever lived"
...That's the words that Dennis Quaid says in this 80's classic, to his wife Babs (Jessica Lange). This is a great story, not only of the life of an athelete, but of life itself. Read more
Published on November 11, 2007 by Rodney Langley
4.0 out of 5 stars
Trying to get things right
Dennis Quaid plays a college football hero stuck in that role and incapable of doing anything else. Jessica Lange is the college queen who marries him, has lots of babies, and gets... Read more
Published on July 27, 2005 by Bomojaz
4.0 out of 5 stars
EVERYBODY'S ALL WORKED UP OVER TOUCHDOWNS AND FOREPLAY
"Everybody's All American" is the story of Gavin Grey(Dennis Quaid)a guy who goes from stud-muffin to couch potato faster than you can say touchdown. Read more
Published on January 28, 2004 by Nix Pix
4.0 out of 5 stars
Definitely not for romantic lovers of nostalga
This movie's message is, simply put, don't go living in the past or the present may very well run over you like a very large lineman. Read more
Published on January 12, 2004 by chefdevergue
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