Synopsis
At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
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Cast
- Kevin CostnerSonny Weaver Jr.
- Jennifer GarnerAli Parker
- Denis LearyVince Penn
- Chadwick BosemanVontae Mack
- Frank LangellaAnthony Molina
- Josh PenceBo Callahan
- Arian FosterRay Jennings
- Terry CrewsEarl Jennings
- Ellen BurstynBarb Weaver
- Sean CombsChris Crawford
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
In his most effective full star turn in perhaps a decade, Kevin Costner dominates as the greenhorn general manager of the beleaguered Cleveland Browns. - 70
Variety
Draft Day affords the simple but uncommon pleasure of watching intelligent characters who are passionate about what they do trying to do the best that they can. - 67
Portland Oregonian
As a hypothetical, all-access documentary about the kookiest day in draft history, it's oddly satisfying, maybe because watching the actual, bloated spectacle (scheduled this year for May 8) is so often underwhelming. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Draft Day feels like a play, and I don't mean a football play. It feels like a play-play at its sporadic best, in the same way J.C. Chandor's 2011 "Margin Call" felt that way. - 61
Film.com
While Draft Day is a very agreeable and predictable movie, it is also very timely. - 60
The Dissolve
The biggest problem with Draft Day is that even as it shows Sonny sticking to his guns, its absurd, saccharine third act suggests Reitman didn’t stick to his, and allowed his latest celebration of free-spirited mavericks to get co-opted by the very kind of system they were created to criticize. - 58
The A.V. Club
It’s the first, and probably last, sports comedy to take its visual cues from Ang Lee’s "Hulk." - 50
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Costner and Garner are good and Langella properly menacing, but Leary has lost his fastball and seems to be holding something back in his quarrel scenes with Costner. Costner has to carry the film, which he does.
