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Monday night mayhem
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Movie propaganda
Gifford. Cosell. Meredith. There was more action in the booth than there was on the field.
The game could match up league leaders or doghouse teams. Either way, the USA tuned in. No-one wanted to miss what Monday night football's broadcast trio of Frank Gifford (Kevin Anderson), Don Meredith (Brad Beyer) and Howard Cosell (John Turturro) would say or do next.
Football on the field. Mayhem in the booth and the control roo,. Huge ratings in the morning papers. "We're bigger than the game," Cosell famously proclaimed. Yet the game itself, thanks to innovations brought by Monday night football, would loom larger and larger on the viewing landscape.
Persons of interest
- John Turturro .... Howard Cosell
- John Heard .... Roone Arledge
- Kevin Anderson .... Frank Gifford
- Nicholas Turturro .... Chet Forte
- Brad Beyer .... Don Meredith
- Patti LuPone .... Emmy Cosell
- Jay Thomas .... Pete Rozelle
- Eli Wallach .... Leonard Goldenson
- Zak Orth .... Don Ohlmeyer
- Shuler Hensley .... Keith Jackson
- Brennan Brown .... Bob Goodrich
- Leo Burmester .... Carl Lindemann
- Chad Coleman .... OJ Simpson
- Steve Schirripa .... Sal
- Marc Gunther .... Author
- Bill Carter .... Author, Writer
- Ernest R Dickerson .... Director
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Theatrical report
It's odd that this film is getting a release in Australia because it's a biography about people you've never heard of and a TV show you've never seen and a sport that nobody plays. Taking that into account, it's almost an interesting look at what goes on in the commentary booth. Hijinks, politics, gambling, sex and occasionally sport.
One for the hard-core sports fan during a mid-week dearth of sport.
Security censorship classification
PG (Low level violence, low level coarse language, adult themes)
Surveillance time
94 minutes (1:34 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
DVD rental: 6 November 2002
VHS rental: 6 November 2002
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