2008 · comedy · romance · drama
Leatherheads
Directed by George Clooney1h 54m2008
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero... everyone could lose out.
Our read: Leatherheads (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want old-Hollywood screwball charm wrapped around 1920s football nostalgia.”
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