Your Donations support the Site

Buy Cranky stuff


Buy Movie Posters

Top Selling DVD     Books

        BLU-RAY DVDs:
Avatar
Bad Teacher
Batman Begins
Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Conan the Barbarian
Cowboys and Aliens
Dark Knight
Fifth Element
The Hangover
James Bond 11 disc coll.
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Star Wars Saga
Super 8
Ultimate Matrix coll
X-Men First Class
X-Men Trilogy
X-Men Wolverine

BLU-Ray for Family DVDs
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Bambi
A Bug's Life
Cars
Chronicles of Narnia set
Coraline
Ghostbusters
Harry Potter 1-8 collection
Iron Man 2 combo
Kung Fu Panda
Lord of the Rings Trilogy Pinocchio
Pirates of Caribbean trilogy
Pixar short films
Ratatouille
Shrek the Whole Story
Sleeping Beauty
The Smurfs combo
Snow White & 7 Dwarfs
Star Trek motion pictures set
Star Wars Saga (1-6)
Toy Story combo
Toy Story 2 combo
Toy Story 3 combo
Wall-E SE

Search engine by FreeFind

click to search site

      Now in Release:
Adventures of Tintin
Albert Nobbs
Anonymous
The Artist
Carnage
Change-Up, the
Chasing Madoff
Cook County
Crazy Stupid Love
The Descendants
The Double
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
50/50
Hanna
Hugo
Iron Lady, the
J Edgar
Killing Bono
Kill the Irishman
Machine Gun Preacher
Melancholia
Mission Impossible GP
The Muppets
Passion Play
Puncture
Rampart
Sherlock Holmes
The Son of No One
Super
That's What I Am
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Trust
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
What's Your Number
Winnie the Pooh
Young Adult

click for full sized poster Buy the Poster	Any Given Sunday Rated [R], 168 minutes Starring Al Pacino Story by Daniel Pyne and John Logan Screenplay by John Logan and Oliver Stone Directed by Oliver Stone website: www.anygivensuunday.net

Less about football and more about how professional football dominates the lives of those who play it, Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday is a remarkably compact movie even at a two hours forty eight minute running time. With, perhaps, an unnecessary ten minutes of music vid type stuff, the flick is stuffed with half a dozen good stories all rotating around two time Pantheon Cup winning coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), whose team is aging as his career and personal life falls apart.

I said half a dozen and I meant it. Let's count: D'Amato versus the new owner (Cameron Diaz), daughter of the old and more concerned with stats and the bottom line than old school football; 39 year old first string quarterback Jack "Cap" rooney (Dennis Quaid) who's facing the uprights for the last time; Mrs. Rooney (Lauren Holly) who's not about to let her celebrity stud retire; Third string QB Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx), who's spent 6 years on the bench and doesn't know how to lead a team; the alcoholic mom (Ann-Margret) who's seen what owning the team did to her late husband, and now her daughter; and the $5 grand a night hooker (Elizabeth Berkely) who brings a little cheer to D'Amato's otherwise cheerless holiday season.

And there you have it. Half a dozen, not counting the miraculous rebirth of the team and the run for the Pantheon Cup -- make up your own ending, 'cuz the clock hits :00 halfway into a successful playoff season and then jumps to post season. It's just what you want under the tree, a piece of cake you can eat and have, too. Unless, of course, you're the negative type, in which case you can fantasize that the team blows it big time.

The negative is simple: this flick is almost three hours. The positive is simpler: This may be the best work out of Cameron Diaz in all the years that I've been watching her on screen. Yes, better than Being John Malkovich.. It certainly is from Jamie Foxx, who is the hands down winner in this flick. At nearly three hours this flick (almost) doesn't feel like it. Ten minutes less and this would have been a hands down winner.

On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Eight Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price to Any Given Sunday, he would have paid...

$5.00

Date flick for the guys. A "recommended" level, less a buck for the time.

	Click to buy films by Oliver Stone
	Click to buy films starring Al Pacino
	Click to buy films starring Cameron Diaz