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Any Given Sunday
1999
**
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods

A clichéd and seemingly endless drama about a struggling American Football team the Miami Sharks. Oliver Stone's formulaic story has a talented but cocky young quarterback, a head coach who knows the game inside out and an owner who only looks at the bottom line. First you lose, then you win, inbetween the usual lessons about respect, dedication and team spirit. Based on Pat Toomay's book On Any Given Sunday.