In 1925, Dodge Connolly is a charming, brash football hero who is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the 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 both fight to keep his guys together and to 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.

To start with

George Clooney’s third feature as director, Leatherheads, is a romantic comedy and the Oscar winners, Clooney and Zellweger, are going to match wits in this movie. Clooney plays aging footballer Dodge Connelly who faced with his team’s collapse, recruiting a college superstar and World War 1 hero to pack out the stadium. The story is set in 1925.

From the still shots and posters, it seems Clooney and Krasinski are having a lot of fun.

What do you think

The story looks a bit predictable (hope the story is not following “The Longest Yard”) and the comedy would be just so-so like if I need to laugh or not.

But it is still expected by it’s story and performance

We want to expect Clooney’s another hit after “Michael Clayton” in this film.
We couldn’t see Zellweger’s good romantic comedy movie since “Jerry Maguire”, but might see her good performance in this movie with another good sentence “You had me at hello”.

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