Any Given Sunday is a drama film depicting a fictional professional American football team Miami Sharks, and fictional professional football league AFFA (a creative stand-in for the NFL). The film directed by Oliver Stone, who also write the screenplay for the film with Daniel Pyne and John Logan. Any Given Sunday features many Hollywood big stars in the cast, including Al Pacino as Tony D'Amato (the head coach of the Miami Sharks), Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, and legendary NFL players Lawrence Taylor and Jim Brown.
The theme of the movie "on any given Sunday, anything can happen" refers to an incident when both the starting quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney and the second-string quarterback Tyler Cherubini are injured and forced to leave the game. The incident then force Miami Shark to call upon third-string quarterback and former seventh round draft pick Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx), who slightly nervous and makes a number of errors, but eventually displays his athletic talent and pass extremely successfully.
Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, at the final press conference announces that he has been hired as head coach and general manager of the expansion Albuquerque Aztecs, and signed Willie Beamen as his starting quarterback and franchise player.Along with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino was Oliver Stone's first two choices to play Tony D'Amato. De Niro declined the role, and Pacino had already accepted. Clint Eastwood was also sought after for Pacino's role, but he also wanted to direct the picture, and Warner Bros declined.
However, no special accolades from film critics given to the film. Any Given Sunday only received an aggregated score of 50% from 115 movie reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
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