Any Given Sunday (1999)
72%RT Audience Score: 73%
Awards & Nominations: 3 wins & 9 nominations
Sometimes entertaining, but overall Any Given Sunday is a disappointment coming from Oliver Stone
Any Given Sunday is a movie that’s as long as a football game, but with more drama and less actual football. Critics have mixed feelings about it, with some calling it a meathead burlesque and others praising it for its breakdown of the sport. Personally, I think it’s a great movie to watch if you want to feel like you’ve been hit in the head a few times. It’s got everything: strong language, sex, drugs, and Al Pacino yelling. Plus, it’s a good reminder that football is a strange, difficult, dirty, addictive monster.
Production Company(ies)
American Zoetrope Zoetrope Studios,
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Dallas, Texas, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for strong language and some nudity/sexuality
Year of Release
1999
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:DTS Dolby Digital SDDS
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:2h 42m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 22, 1999 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2000
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $100,230,832
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $179,917,138
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 753
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 19,620,190
US/Canada gross: $75,530,832
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $135,579,949
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 564
US/Canada opening weekend: $13,584,625
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $24,384,781
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 556
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $55,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $98,726,534
Production budget ranking: 412
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $53,164,238
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $28,026,366
ROI to date (est.): 18%
ROI ranking: 1,302
Maren Eggert – Alma
Sandra Hüller – Mitarbeiterin
Hans Löw – Julian
Wolfgang Hübsch – Vater Felser
Annika Meier – Cora
Director(s)
Oliver Stone
Writer(s)
Oliver Stone, Daniel Pyne, John Logan, John Logan
Producer(s)
Dan Halsted, Lauren Shuler Donner, Clayton Townsend
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
3 wins & 9 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (126) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (60)
Stone’s blend of mayhem and sensuality-which doesn’t shy away from the eroticism of athletes-is a refreshing alternative to the solemnity of most sports dramas.
September 17, 2014 | Rating: 3/5
Sam Adams
The Dissolve
TOP CRITIC
September 7, 2011 | Rating: B
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
TOP CRITIC
Almost three hours of this jitter deteriorates from bravura filmmaking to annoying mannerism, and Any Given Sunday ends up less than the sum of its many, often interesting parts.
August 22, 2008
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
TOP CRITIC
A meathead burlesque.
June 24, 2006
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
Choc-a-bloc with manly blather about sacrifice and honour and rugged individuals pulling together for the greater glory of the team.
March 19, 2002 | Rating: 2/4
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
TOP CRITIC
A flawed yet riveting journey into the heart of a corrupt America.
August 18, 2001 | Rating: 3/4
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
TOP CRITIC
A marvelous breakdown of football from all angles, so gloriously overwrought in a way that captures nearly everything about the sport that makes it such a strange, difficult, dirty, addictive monster.
June 15, 2022
Cory Woodroof
615 Film
Makes me feel as if I was concussed.
March 26, 2022 | Rating: C+
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Hard-hitting football drama has strong language, sex, drugs.
September 25, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
Alistair Lawrence
Common Sense Media
Oliver Stone’s hyperkinetic, ultraviolent football epic distills America’s most popular sport to its essence, adds caffeine, taurine, and guarana…
March 26, 2019
Michael Baumann
The Ringer
After you’ve seen the first ten minutes, you could probably write out the plot yourself, beat by beat. But inside all that cliche is actually a very interesting, and very pertinent, vision of football.
October 18, 2018
Stephen Marche
Esquire Magazine
The film has an entirely compelling emptiness and exhaustion.
November 28, 2017
Antonia Quirke
Independent on Sunday…
Plot
When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney 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 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 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, 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.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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