Any Given Sunday
When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino) to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by
. Adding to the pressure on D’Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), now coming into her own after her father’s death. Christina’s driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the marketing and business of football, in which all coaches and players are merely properties.
Title: Any Given Sunday
Release Date: 1999
Genres: Drama, Sport
- Directors: Stone, Oliver
- Actors:
- Pacino, Al as Tony D”Amato
- Diaz, Cameron as Christina Pagniacci
- Quaid, Dennis as Jack ”Cap” Rooney
- Woods, James as Dr. Harvey Mandrake
- Foxx, Jamie as Willie Beamen
- LL Cool J as Julian Washington
- Modine, Matthew as Dr. Ollie Powers
- Brown, Jim as Montezuma Monroe
- Taylor, Lawrence as Luther ”Shark” Lavay
- Bellamy, Bill as Jimmy Sanderson
- Bryniarski, Andrew as Patrick ”Madman” Kelly
- Rochon, Lela as Vanessa Struthers
- Holly, Lauren as Cindy Rooney
- Ann-Margret as Margaret Pagniacci
- Eckhart, Aaron as Nick Crozier