Synopsis
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero... everyone could lose out.
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Cast
- George ClooneyJimmy 'Dodge' Connelly
- Renée ZellwegerLexie Littleton
- John KrasinskiCarter Rutherford
- Wayne DuvallCoach Frank Ferguson
- Stephen RootSuds
- Jonathan PryceCC Frazier
- Jack ThompsonHarvey
- Max CasellaMack Steiner
- Matt BushellCurly
- Nick PaonessaZoom
Recommendations
- 75
ReelViews
Clooney and Zellweger play off each other perfectly, delivering their dialogue with the rhythm of a well-choreographed dance and falling in love in the time-honored tradition of '40s romantic comedies. - 75
Rolling Stone
Leatherheads is most on its game when it's in the game, and in the zone of Clooney's no-bull affection for the faces of his actors. - 75
Charlotte Observer
In the end, Leatherheads recalls the gloriously dated sentiments of Grantland Rice, one of that era's beloved sportswriters, expressed 17 years earlier in the poem "Alumnus Football." - 67
Austin Chronicle
You can’t read one of Clooney’s endless People profiles without hearing the Cary Grant comparison, but here, he’s all Gable – same rakishness and stubble and tanned-leather basso profundo. - 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
A larky throwback to the breakneck screwballs of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. Problem is, it isn't breakneck enough. - 60
Slate
Better than a finger in your eye. It's a perfectly passable, if instantly forgettable, date movie, lushly shot by Newton Thomas Sigel and with a script intelligently versed in American classics like "His Girl Friday" and "Hail the Conquering Hero." - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Clooney, the film's director and star, can't make up his mind how to approach the story. One minute it's a romantic comedy. Then it switches to slapstick, then to screwball comedy before sliding into Frank Capra territory. - 50
Variety
Arch and funny in equal measure, this looks like a theatrical non-starter that Clooney fans and football devotees might be tempted to check out down the line on DVD or on the tube.
