Everybody's All-American (1988)
Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he should still be. His dissatisfaction with his life leads to strains in his marriage, and Gavin begins to wonder who he is, if he's not a hero anymore.
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To me, this movie is perfection.
Absolutely Fantastic
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Well sort of....I attended LSU during the filming of this movie. I just finished watching it and it never gets old for me. Everyone watches movies for different reasons. This movie is a walk through life and ultimately its message to me is to cherish every single moment as it moves by quickly. Treat everyone with respect but especially never take the ones who love you the most for granted! My wife and I were at LSU during the filming so it speaks to us. Gavin and Babs get it right in the end........
First off, this is an OK film, no more, no less. I've never been much of a fan of Dennis Quaid, even though we hail from the same town. His essential cockiness, though, seems made for this part. Jessica Lange was, as always, very beautiful, even though she exhibits a bit of hard-edged brittleness. John Goodman turned in a very good performance. All three seemed a bit too old to pass for college kids, but hey, what're you gonna do when your film spans 25-plus years? The central themes were old, familiar, and a bit tired. In general, it seems that football movies are a lot harder to make than baseball movies, for obvious reasons. The action sequences were mostly done pretty well. Overall, this one is probably worth a Netflix rental, but don't spend any money on it.
Quaid & Goodman do a very good job as jocks who try to survive life after college football, one going to the pros, the other to business management. More importantly, the movie focuses also on the relationship between Quaid & Lange, and the film projects that focus more directly when Hutton asks Lange what her major is and she replies, "Me & Gavin (Quaid)."Going from the team's star player's girlfriend in college to a player's wife in the pros has an impact that I would not have imagined in this movie. I went to it the first time in the theaters expecting a jock movie. My significant other enjoyed it more than I did because it turned out to be as "chick-flick," (although this has become one of my favorites of all time).
This movie has it all. The jock (Dennis Quaid), the high school princess (Jessica Lange), the academic (Timothy Hutton), the party guy (John Goodman), and a great plot that realistically portrays how stars fade from greatness. Along the way the film chronicles important periods in America, like racial segregation.Jessica Lange's performance is unparalleled (as usual). I would recommend this film to everyone.