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Everybody's All-American (1988) -- A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.

Overview

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Director:
Taylor Hackford
Writers (WGA):
Frank Deford (novel)
Thomas Rickman (screenplay)
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Release Date:
4 November 1988 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance | Sport more
Tagline:
Their life story is a love story
Plot:
A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over. | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Dennis Quaid: It’S Nice To Be Coach…Finally
 (From Hollywood Outbreak. 3 October 2008, 9:00 AM, PDT)

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The Good & Bad Of 'Everybody's All-American' more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jessica Lange ... Babs Rogers Grey

Dennis Quaid ... Gavin Grey

Timothy Hutton ... Donnie 'Cake'

John Goodman ... Lawrence

Carl Lumbly ... Narvel Blue

Ray Baker ... Bolling Kiely

Savannah Smith Boucher ... Darlene Kiely (as Savannah Smith Bouchér)

Patricia Clarkson ... Leslie Stone
Joseph Meyer ... Pep Leader
J. Kevin Brune ... Roommate
Wayne Knight ... Fraternity Pisser
Roy B. Stewart Sr. ... Junie
Pat Pierre Perkins ... Willy Mae
Aaron Neville ... Man with Gun
Shawn Burks ... Georgia Center
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
When I Fall in Love
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Runtime:
127 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Australia:M | Finland:K-14 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:12

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Trivia:
Filming was stopped for weeks when Dennis Quaid had his collarbone broken by Tim Fox of the New England Patriots during filming. Footage of Quaid rolling in pain on the sidelines of the snow game appears in the finished film. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When Babs is getting the bad news about their financial situation, the man on the phone says that the "County Assessor" has placed a lien on their account. In Louisiana, the "counties" are called parishes. The man should have referred to the "Parish Assessor". more
Quotes:
Babs Grey: [watching Gavin's first pro game] It's so rough!
Player's Wife #1: Yep, pro's a different game, honey. Not much rah-rah up here. Not like when you were homecoming queen back in... where was it?
Babs Grey: Louisiana. I was Magnolia Queen.
Player's Wife #2: Most of us were the queen of something. Now? We're just players' wives.
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Movie Connections:
Features Long-Haired Hare (1949) more
Soundtrack:
Lawdy Miss Clawdy more

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8 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
The Good & Bad Of 'Everybody's All-American', 24 August 2007
5/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

I like football. I like most of the cast in this film. Does that mean I enjoyed the movie? No, this modern-day soaper was filled with mostly unlikable characters and an appealing story for my tastes, even though it had some very good points.

In a nutshell, it's about an ex-college football star who doesn't know what to do when his playing days are over and nobody is cheering him anymore.

To me, on the negative side were the melodramatic clichés of the typical (for movies) unhappy marriage (a Louisiana State University football star and its Homecoming Queen ), the standard (for movies) adulterous affairs, the normal (for movies) lectures about race and in particular, the South; the tale of real and not-so-real friends, the predictable getting-back together routine, blah, blah, blah. Add in some fake Southern accents, too.

On the more positive side, Dennis Quaid plays "Gavin Grey" of the title role. The story concentrates mostly on the downside of his life, picking up 20 years later when he's not so famous anymore and a life of gridiron fame never materialized after a promising start. The sad thing is, there are real-life stories like this, probably more than we know. So, I am not knocking the film for its story. Many college and professional athletes go into "the real world" unprepared, just as many beautiful Homecoming Queens are unprepared for life because their fabulous looks - not their personality or character - opened a lot doors for them.

"Grey" winding up telling old sports glory stories to drunks at a restaurant is the same as Jake LaMotta doing it in "Raging Bull" and "Rocky Balboa" doing the same in Sylvester Stallone's recent role.

Jessica Lange plays the ditzy Homecoming queen who bears four kids and then becomes a good businesswomen. She isn't the most faithful, loving wife. And, at 39 years of age when she made the film, a little too old to be playing a college kid.

Quaid and Lange, though, are fine in their performances, but supporting actors John Goodman and Timothy Hutton were the most interesting, in my humble opinion.

Overall, so-so as a sports-soap opera. It's not a film I have ever been interested in viewing a second time.

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