Synopsis
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon, a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game.
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Cast
- James Van Der BeekJonathan 'Mox' Moxon
- Amy SmartJules Harbor
- Jon VoightCoach Bud Kilmer
- Paul WalkerLance Harbor
- Ron LesterBilly Bob
- Scott CaanCharlie Tweeder
- Ali LarterDarcy Sears
- Richard LinebackJoe Harbor
- Thomas F. DuffySam Moxon
- Joe PichlerKyle Moxon
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
The movie is also brisk and wholehearted and smarter than you expect. - 70
The New York Times
A paint-by-numbers story that offers no surprises and a hero and villain etched in white and black with few shades of gray. - 70
Washington Post
This flick has modest ambitions, but it delivers the goods in a fresh manner. - 60
New Times (L.A.)
Originally, somebody may have wanted the film to be a serious exploration of the dark side of high school sports, but it ended up as just one more sports picture. - 60
Film.com
It is an ostensibly serious story about being young and struggling to wrest control over one's life from the hands of fools, yet it doesn't behave like a serious drama that wants to lead us anywhere. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
We are aware going in that Varsity Blues' cannot be a landmark of world cinema. Yet working within the tired formula, the picture turns out to be not so bad. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
A movie that doesn't buy into all the tenets of our national sports religion; the subtext is that winning isn't everything. - 50
Film.com
Eventually fizzles out badly.
