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Any Given Sunday

  • 19991999
  • RR
  • 2h 42m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
119K
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POPULARITY
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Cameron Diaz, Al Pacino, James Woods, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, and LL Cool J in Any Given Sunday (1999)
  • Drama
  • Sport
A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
119K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,421
632
  • Director
    • Oliver Stone
  • Writers
    • Daniel Pyne(screen story)
    • John Logan(screen story)
    • Oliver Stone(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Al Pacino
    • Dennis Quaid
    • Cameron Diaz
Top credits
  • Director
    • Oliver Stone
  • Writers
    • Daniel Pyne(screen story)
    • John Logan(screen story)
    • Oliver Stone(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Al Pacino
    • Dennis Quaid
    • Cameron Diaz
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 485User reviews
    • 107Critic reviews
    • 52Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 9 nominations

    Videos1

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    Cameron Diaz and Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday (1999)
    Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, and LL Cool J in Any Given Sunday (1999)
    Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday (1999)
    Tony, Willie and Cap on the sidelines
    Cindy Rooney
    Christina Pagniacci
    Willie
    Cap on the field
    Christina and Harvey talk in the locker room
    Julian in uniform
    Julian on the sidelines
    Tony talks to the team

    Top cast

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    Al Pacino
    Al Pacino
    • Tony D'Amatoas Tony D'Amato
    Dennis Quaid
    Dennis Quaid
    • Jack 'Cap' Rooneyas Jack 'Cap' Rooney
    Cameron Diaz
    Cameron Diaz
    • Christina Pagniaccias Christina Pagniacci
    James Woods
    James Woods
    • Dr. Harvey Mandrakeas Dr. Harvey Mandrake
    Jamie Foxx
    Jamie Foxx
    • Willie Beamenas Willie Beamen
    LL Cool J
    LL Cool J
    • Julian Washingtonas Julian Washington
    Matthew Modine
    Matthew Modine
    • Dr. Ollie Powersas Dr. Ollie Powers
    Jim Brown
    Jim Brown
    • Montezuma Monroeas Montezuma Monroe
    Lawrence Taylor
    Lawrence Taylor
    • Luther 'Shark' Lavayas Luther 'Shark' Lavay
    Bill Bellamy
    Bill Bellamy
    • Jimmy Sandersonas Jimmy Sanderson
    Andrew Bryniarski
    Andrew Bryniarski
    • Patrick 'Madman' Kellyas Patrick 'Madman' Kelly
    Lela Rochon
    Lela Rochon
    • Vanessa Struthersas Vanessa Struthers
    Lauren Holly
    Lauren Holly
    • Cindy Rooneyas Cindy Rooney
    Ann-Margret
    Ann-Margret
    • Margaret Pagniaccias Margaret Pagniacci
    Aaron Eckhart
    Aaron Eckhart
    • Nick Crozieras Nick Crozier
    Elizabeth Berkley
    Elizabeth Berkley
    • Mandy Murphyas Mandy Murphy
    Charlton Heston
    Charlton Heston
    • AFFA Football Commissioneras AFFA Football Commissioner
    John C. McGinley
    John C. McGinley
    • Jack Roseas Jack Rose
    • Director
      • Oliver Stone
    • Writers
      • Daniel Pyne(screen story)
      • John Logan(screen story) (screenplay)
      • Oliver Stone(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Dennis Quaid's character Cap Rooney's house is really Miami Dolphin quarterback Dan Marino's house.
    • Goofs
      During Beamen's first game, after the first touchdown but before the extra point, the TV score shows the Sharks already have 7 points instead of 6. Then players on the field talk about getting the extra point.
    • Quotes

      Tony D'Amato: I don't know what to say, really. Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives. All comes down to today, and either, we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play. Until we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell... one inch at a time. Now I can't do it for ya, I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I've pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's... that's... that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losin' stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life anymore it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think ya going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. Your gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it your gonna do the same for him. That's a team, gentlemen, and either, we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's football guys, that's all it is. Now, what are you gonna do?

    • Crazy credits
      During the end credits, we see D'Amato accepting an award and telling of his future plans with the league.
    • Alternate versions
      Alternate television versions of several scenes were filmed.
    • Connections
      Edited into Ann-Margret: Från Valsjöbyn till Hollywood (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Ghost Dance
      Written by Robbie Robertson and Jim Wilson

      Performed by Robbie Robertson

      Courtesy of Capitol Records

      Under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets

    User reviews485

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Professional Football Meets Its Match in Oliver Stone
    I thought what a great combo for "Any Given Sunday" - Oliver Stone and professional football -- excess meets its match.

    So I grabbed a chance to go to the movies with my sons. They got a lot more out of the first and third thirds of the movie that are football games, which I couldn't follow at all, knowing zilch about football so I missed any references to significances of plays and strategies and didn't recognize the zillion football players past and present in bit parts, but I got other visual and music references they didn't.

    The football field is explicitly a jungle, with the sounds like an elephant herd crashing. Of course Stone never says or shows once what he can get across 5 times, so the jungle fever point of the primalness of sports as a venue for male violence is accompanied by Native American chants, aboriginal and Asian Indian mystic strains as well. I don't know enough about rap to judge those selections -- I could tell there were lots of lyrics about "niggaz" working for The Man type of thing.

    The second third should have appealed to me as that's when the huge ensemble has personal interactions and we learn all their selfish, dastardly, unpleasant motivations, but I was on sensory overload. Example: Al Pacino as the Old Guard Coach calls in Jamie Foxx as the suddenly first string quarterback (in a terrific performance), for a tête a tête on the pro's of Jazz over Rap, as a metaphor of the old football of finesse (what? all those flashbacks to black & white football games were of a subtle sport?). But when Foxx walks in Pacino has "Ben Hur" playing on a wide-screen TV. As if we didn't get the point Foxx actually says "The old gladiators, huh?" If we still didn't get the point the conversation keeps intercutting with the chariot race. And if we still didn't get the point of any reference in the conversation to racial issues then intercuts to the galley slave scenes from "Ben Hur" THEN on top of that, the NFL commissioner who puts the Bitch Owner in her place for trying to play with the Big Old Guys is none other than Charlton Heston.

    No one just has a conversation -- everyone shouts, usually at the same time, so I had to close my eyes and I'm not sure if I missed something.

    This is Sunbelt Football of expansion teams where the sport is not a Fall/Winter season - so the women were everywhere in tank tops, cleavage, midriffs bare and hips swinging, even Cameron Diaz as the Bitch Owner. Though all the women are really high priced prostitutes (even usually sweet Lauren Holly is a hardened cold Football Wife).

    What I don't think I missed was Stone's outsize determination to ignore the homo-erotic aspects of male sports violence that "Fight Club" reveled in. Aw come on Stone, not a single gay player in the closet? He crowds the behemoths into locker rooms and showers that can barely contain their bodies--but he's so afraid of showing them in contact that he even at one point has one throw a baby alligator into the shower so they scatter.

    Everyone is criticized-- including the sportscasters, which Stone revels in playing one (I think in general this movie is a show down between Stone and Spike Lee as it takes on more racial issues than he's done in the past). What a coincidence that ESPN is continually bad-mouthed when there's a big legible credit at the end to Turner Sports Network when this is a Time Warner movie and ESPN's a competitor.

    Stone of course goes out of his way to link football with war, to fit into his oeuvre, with battle quotes from Vince Lombardi and some sort of link with Pacino's father dying in WWII that was irrelevant it seemed to me.

    I think this is Dennis Quaid's at least third football movie and in the genre of such movies as "North Dallas 40," "Longest Yard," "Great American Hero," etc. and this joins that pantheon as a terrific football movie.

    The music selections were by Robbie Robertson (with Paul Kelly but I'm not sure which Kelly that is) and he did as seamless a job as he's done for Martin Scorcese. The music credits at the end were impossible to read -- in 3 columns of a vertical font that was like watching the credits on TV - plus the movie continues under the credits so all those who bolted missed the ending.

    Professional football deserves to be Oliver Stoned. But if I never saw any more football that'll be fine with me.

    (originally written 12/27/1999)
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    • Dec 21, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 22, 1999 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Gridiron
    • Filming locations
      • Dallas, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Ixtlan
      • Donners' Company
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $55,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $75,530,832
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $13,584,625
      • Dec 26, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $100,230,832
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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