Leatherheads (2008)

Movie: Leatherheads (2008)"A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, 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 t
o 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... Written by Orange"
Director: George Clooney
Release Date: 11 April 2008 (UK)
Run Time: 114 min
Country: USA , Germany
Genre: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sport
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for brief strong language.

Tagline: In the beginning, the rules were simple. There weren't any.Trivia: The Dodge Connelly character was loosely based off of 1920s football star Johnny "Blood" McNally, who was known for his great football skills, but even for his off-the-field incidents.Goofs: Revealing mistakes: At the end of the movie, the series of newspaper headlines state some related information, but all of the articles contain generic paragraphs, none of which have anything to do with the headline or the plot. Other headlines on the pages appear multiple times, such as "KING IN NEST OF SHRINES", taken from the New York Times' 1923 article on the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb.

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