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Leatherheads (Widescreen)

In the Beginning, the Rules Were Simple. There Weren't Any.

Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Spanish, French, Dolby, Dolby Digital (5.1)

Academy Award winners George Clooney and Renee Zellweger team up in this fun-filled comedy set against the beginnings of pro football. Dodge Connelly (Clooney), captain of a struggling squad of barroom brawlers, has only one hope to save his team: recruit college superstar Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski, The Office). But when a feisty reporter (Zellweger) starts snooping around, she turns the two teammates into instant rivals and kicks off a wild competition filled with hilarious screwball antics! Critics are cheering Leatherheads as "a real winner" (Claudia Puig, USA Today).

"...scores more points as a retro romantic comedy than a football saga."  Claudia Puig, USA Today
"Clooney and Zellweger play off each other perfectly, delivering their dialogue with the rhythm of a well-choreographed dance..."  James Berardinelli's ReelViews
"Clooney and Zellweger are comic gold."  Kevin Steincross, FOX-TV
"Feisty and good-humored, and if it doesn't have deep characters, it is chock-full of personality."  Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun
"...most on its game when it's in the game, and in the zone of Clooney's no-bull affection for the faces of his actors."  Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...a completely charming film that comes a few inches from being a great one."  Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian
"A larky throwback to the breakneck screwballs of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges."  Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Editor's Note

From his casual charm to his cleft chin, George Clooney has frequently drawn comparisons to an actor of another age: Cary Grant. With his third directorial effort, the Oscar winner pays homage to the style of films that helped make Grant famous, such as BRINGING UP BABY and HIS GIRL FRIDAY. In 1925, when LEATHERHEADS takes place, professional football is a joke, especially when compared to its more respected college cousin. Teams across the country are folding, and player Dodge Connelly (Clooney) will do anything to keep his own team, the Duluth Bulldogs, from folding. The enterprising (read: scheming) Dodge steals Princeton star and war hero Carter Ruthford (John Krasinski, THE OFFICE) from his school, and soon the Bulldogs are winning, but it's the game of football that is the real champion as fans pack the stadiums. Meanwhile, reporter Lexie Littleton (Rene Zellweger) begins investigating Rutherford's past, thanks to a tip from one of the star's old war buddies that he may not be all he seems. The pre-regulation football is dirty, but it's far cleaner than the action when Dodge and Carter vie for Lexie's affections.

From the classic Universal logo that opens the film, Clooney firmly sets his film in the sepia-toned past. His lightning-fast dialogue is certainly reminiscent of the repartee between Grant and costars such as Katharine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell. But as much as he owes to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and '40s, he also is mining the same vein that his frequent collaborators, the Coen Brothers, did in films such as THE HUDSUCKER PROXY and INTOLERABLE CRUELTY. Clooney's previous directorial efforts--CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND and GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK--were also both stylish films set in the past, but LEATHERHEADS is a more fun, mainstream work.

Features

	Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
	Deleted Scenes
	Dubbed: French, Spanish
	Feature Audio Commentary With Director George Clooney & Producer Grant Heslov
	Featurettes: Football's Beginning - The Making Of Leatherheads; No Pads, No Fear - Creating The Rowdy Football Scenes; George Clooney - A Leatherheaded Prankster; & Visual Effects Sequences
	Interactive Menus
	Scene Selection
	Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Entertainment Reviews

Leatherheads - DVD Review

By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews

Published on: 9/12/2008 3:28 PM

With his nonchalant sophistication and relaxed charm, George Clooney often gets compared to the icons of Hollywood's Golden Age, from Cary Grant to Clark Gable. But as Leatherheads demonstrates, the leading man really wants to be the next George Cukor. A football comedy disguised as a love-triangle-laugher, Leatherheads is a snappy throwback fueled by the filmmaker's affection for a bygone era. Clooney's third directorial effort is his lightest film so far, which only means he isn't flogging the fear-mongering tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Good Night and Good Luck) or dissecting the deranged brain of a game show host who believes he's a CIA operative (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)....read the full review

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Universal
	Release Date: 5/12/2009
	Running Time: 114 minutes
	Original Release Date: 2008
	Catalog ID: 61101581
	UPC: 00025195012935
	Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
	Original Language: English
	Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed
	Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
	Video: Color
Aspect Ratio
	Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1

Cast & Crew

	John Krasinski
	Rene Zellweger
	George Clooney
	Jonathan Pryce
	Jeffrey Silver - Executive Producer
	Sydney Pollack - Executive Producer
	Randy Newman - Composer
	Newton Thomas Sigel - Director of Photography
	Bobby Newmyer - Executive Producer
	Barbara A. Hall - Executive Producer
	Rick Reilly - Screenwriter
	Grant Heslov - Producer
	Duncan Brantley - Screenwriter
	Casey Silver - Producer
	George Clooney - Director