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Dodge Connolly (George Clooney), captain of a 1920s football team, wants to give the sagging sport a boost and capture the country's attention. He recruits Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski) to play for the team. Carter is not only a war hero, but he is also fast, handsome, and guaranteed to pack the stands with fans. Newswoman Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger) goes digging for dirt on Carter, while both Dodge and Carter try to score with her off the field.
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Man, George Clooney loves the past.
With each film he both acts and stars in, he regresses further and further into American 20th-century consciousness. The whacked-out Chuck Barris biopic "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" had him turning the game-show giant into a '60s-era CIA killer. "Good Night, and Good Luck" was all black-and-white and blazingly liberal, as he told of TV newsman Edward R. Murrow's fight against McCarthyism in the '50s. (Full review)