Everybody's All-American

Buy This Item Everybody's All-American by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $12.99  on 11-26-2008     When the cheering and MVP perks stop, what then? This ambitious adaptation of Frank Deford's novel about three tumultuous decades in the lives of a Washington Redskins football star and his two biggest fans attempts to answer this question. Dennis Quaid has his rangiest role to date as Gavin Grey, who goes, De Niro-like, from sinewy gridiron Adonis to embittered has-been with sizable beer gut. Jessica Lange brings her customary class and inner strength to Babs, the Louisiana State homecoming queen who marries college sweetheart Gavin and forfeits her identity; Timothy Hutton is Donnie, Gavin's cousin who secretly pines for the neglected Babs. But it's big guy John Goodman in one of his first screen roles who blasts through in this cross between <I>The Way We Were</I> and <I>North Dallas Forty</I>. Taylor Hackford, no slouch at epic melodramas (<I>The Devil's Advocate</I>), directed from a script by Tom Rickman (Oscar-nominated for <I>Coal Miner's Daughter</I>). Gavin's two-hours-later epiphany? "There's more to life than making touchdowns." <I>--Glenn Lovell</I> Reader Reviews ...That's the words that Dennis Quaid says in this 80's classic, to his wife Babs (Jessica Lange). This is a great story, not only of the life of an athelete, but of life itself. It encompasess an era between the 50s and the 80s, where this couple faces many life changing events. From the finaly game in college, getting drafted into the NFL, bankrupcy caused by thier college friend, to a change of bread-winners after the retirement of th "Gray Ghost". After all they go through, they manage to stick together because they were truly in love.

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