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Leatherheads
Universal Pictures
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language
Starring
George Clooney,
Renée Zellweger,
John Krasinski,
Jonathan Pryce,
Stephen Root,
Ezra Buzzington,
John Vance,
and
Dan John Miller
Dodge Connolly is a charming, brash football hero determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after his 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 country's attention. Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford, America's 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 Lexie Littleton aims to prove that's the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter's 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 fight to keep his guys together and 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... (Universal)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Duncan Brantley
Rick Reilly
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| DIRECTED BY: |
George Clooney
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 23, 2008
Theatrical: April 4, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Football, they say, is a game of inches, and so can be moviemaking, and Leatherheads is a completely charming film that comes a few inches from being a great one.

75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Feisty and good-humored, and if it doesn't have deep characters, it is chock-full of personality.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's a pleasant time-killer, nothing more. But nothing less, either.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
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
Peter Travers
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
Lawrence Toppman
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."

75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
More amiable than witty and relying heavily on the likability and charm of its lead actors, Leatherheads scores more points as a retro romantic comedy than a football saga.

70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Leatherheads proceeds agreeably, hitting occasional high notes when it isn't getting bogged down in forced slapstick hi-jinks.

70
Time
Richard Schickel
Maybe the film loses a little steam as it rolls along, but it is still puffing and tooting as Clooney and Zellweger ride off into the sunset -- on a comically raffish period motorcycle, free as the wind.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
For all its other virtues, the supporting casting is lackluster, the script never quite kicks into place as a sports movie and Clooney the director seems to lack the touch that might have set the proceedings on fire as a zany ensemble comedy.

67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Too much of Leatherheads feels like studied motions, and its charms never plaster over a story that takes forever to get going, and doesn't go too far once it does.

67
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
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
Steven Rea
A larky throwback to the breakneck screwballs of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. Problem is, it isn't breakneck enough.

63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Far from a touchdown, but you gotta give points to any movie where a character describes its climactic game as a "muddy snoozefest."

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The film moves slowly and steadily, but it's never exactly dull, just mild.

63
Premiere
Ryan Stewart
If the raison d'être of Leatherheads was not to add something to the football movie canon but to have Clooney and Zellweger engage in a screwball banter-fest, then there's no excusing the paltry number of zinger missiles fired over the course of the film.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Leatherheads goes on a good 20 minutes too long, and there's very little in it that makes a lasting impression, but it's easy to watch while it's unspooling -- much like, you know, a lot of Cary Grant comedies.

60
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Leatherheads is as trifling as Clooney’s second movie (“Good Night and Good Luck”) was significant, but that’s okay. It succeeds where so many other romantic comedies fail because of a superior script and because everyone involved has the good sense not to take themselves too seriously.

60
Slate
Dana Stevens
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
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Reproducing a period-piece screwball comedy for a modern audience turns out to be one playful, self-deprecating wink too many for the star, who also directed Leatherheads.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
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
Todd McCarthy
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.

50
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
For its entire two hours, Leatherheads is rarely less than very promising--and also rarely more.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Sidelined by a script that plays like an imitation of another era’s artifacts. It’s an oxymoron: a mild screwball romance.

50
Washington Post
John Anderson
There's a flatness about the whole enterprise -- like drinking champagne, but from an old house slipper. Re: his performance, Clooney is terrific. His comparison to old movie stars is not just hype. He really does possess the combination of supreme confidence and humility that has been the hallmark of the biggest male Hollywood stars.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A screwball comedy without a charismatic, smart-talking dame is no screwball comedy at all.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Leatherhead's a comedy of stock setups and kooky digressions in which nothing really comes to a head, and running at close to two hours, it lacks the essential brevity of the form.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
There's a jaunty score by Randy Newman, and Clooney, as always, has charm to burn, but here, he's off his game.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Frankly, Zellweger shouldn't have to compete with the ghosts of Rosalind Russell and Carole Lombard, as Clooney forces her to do. It's one thing to evoke the Champagne sophistication of the screwball era; it's another to try to emulate it. Inevitably, the harder you work at capturing madcap fizz, the flatter things are going to feel.

50
Newsweek
David Ansen
The great '30s comedies had edge, bite and relentless forward momentum. Leatherheads is laid-back, amiable and terminally tepid.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
You have to give Leatherheads this much: It's like no other comedy, or movie, out there these days. Clooney, one of our few old-style Hollywood movie stars himself, obviously loves old-fashioned moviemaking.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It exudes goodwill and high spirits, occasionally makes you feel really good, and yet here and there and in some definite ways, it kinda sorta stinks.

40
Empire
Simon Braund
On paper it looks like a gem – roaring 20s setting, verbal fireworks and a silly sport in its rude infancy. In practice, it's way off the pace, far too slow for its screwball pretensions and the kind of film that confuses pastiche with period detail.

30
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
What is harder to comprehend is how Mr. Clooney turned out such a sloppy, haphazard and tonally incoherent piece of work. Leatherheads lurches hectically between Coen brothers-style pastiche and John Saylesian didacticism, while Mr. Clooney works his brow and his jaw and waits in vain for his charm to kick in and save the day.


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