Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195012935
Format: AC-3
Item Dimensions: Array
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD61101581D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-09-23
Running Time: 114
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

Academy Award® winners George Clooney and Renée Zellweger team up in this fun-filled comedy set against the beginnings of pro football. Dodge Connelly (Clooney), captain of a struggling squad of barroom brawlers, has only one hope to save his team: recruit college superstar Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski, The Office). But when a feisty reporter (Zellweger) starts snooping around, she turns the two teammates into instant rivals and kicks off a wild competition filled with hilarious screwball antics! Critics are cheering Leatherheads as "a real winner" (Claudia Puig, USA Today).
Leatherheads is a sort of two-fisted homage, simultaneously celebrating the early, unstructured days of professional football and the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s. George Clooney stars as "Dodge" Connelly of the Duluth Bulldogs, a wily (if a bit long in the tooth) player whose team goes bankrupt. His solution is to lure a war hero and star of the college-football circuit, Carter "The Bullet" Rutherford (John Krasinski from the American version of The Office) to join the team and, through the sheer force of his celebrity, legitimize professional football. Little does Connelly know that Rutherford's war record is being scrutinized by reporter Lexie Littleton (Renee Zellweger) and what she uncovers may undermine the whole scheme. Leatherheads isn't seamless--at times the screwball flavor feels forced and Zellweger's performance is labored--but those few awkward elements only emphasize how zippy and fun the rest of the movie is. Clooney also directed and demonstrates some real flair with editing and letting the fringes of the story be as vital as the main plot. Krasinski, with his goofy handsomeness and a streak of Jimmy Stewart charm, shows real promise as a movie star. Though Leatherheads has plenty of broad slapstick (and most of it is pretty funny), the movie's real comic richness comes out in offhand gestures and sly revelations of character. All in all, it isn't Preston Sturges (director of classic comedies like The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story), but it's in his neighborhood, and that's a pretty wonderful neighborhood to be in. --Bret Fetzer



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Customer Rating:
Summary: I liked it.
Comment: And I'm picky about movies. This is a lighthearted good time with a few belly laughs dispersed throughout. Clooney takes on that leader with a semi-goofy persona character that he demonstrated in "O'Brother where art Thou'.

I'm not going to say that this movie mixes just the right amount of comedy, drama and romance to be perfect......it doesn't. But it is an entertaining, fairly tight-knit, well made and funny movie. Guys will probably enjoy it a bit more because of the football and 'guy-themes' like the occaisional bar fight and machismo driven dialogues. However, the lady I watched it with enjoyed it too. All the actors, including Renee, do a good job.

Nothing deep here - obviously - just good ole, occaisionally witty, fun.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Silly, old-fashioned movie...
Comment: Being a huge George Clooney fan, I will see just about anything he is in. This one was a big disappointment. Firstly, he seemed to old for the part and secondly it seemed to try too hard to be a movie from the 50s. Certainly it was not unpleasant, but I would rather have spent my time watching the superb "Michael Clayton" or the even better "Good Night and Good Luck" again.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good...but where are special features?
Comment: Its a good funny movie. Hd quality is excellent. My only gripe is where are the special features. It only includes U-control and thats it. Makes me think they will double-dip sooner rather than later.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: You Don't Have to Be a Football Fan to Enjoy This Movie!
Comment: I enjoyed watching "Leatherheads" as it contained good acting by all cast members, wonderful costuming, great cinematography, witty dialogue and good storyline/screenplay.

The only downside was that it was a slowing moving movie overall. Otherwise a very well down movie. I enjoyed the fact that you didn't have to be a football fan to enjoy watching "Leatherheads".

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Bored to death
Comment: I like all of the actors in this movie and loved the old-time look of it. But. It. Was. Awful. The best parts are the football games. The middle of the movie was dreary, dull and honestly, Zellweger was badly miscast. She came off mean and simpering. I could hardly finish this. Not even a diehard Clooney fan (and I am) could love this movie.

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