TMR 055 – Any Given Sunday Total Movie Recall

This week on Total Movie Recall, the pressures of competing at a professional level with all the concussions, cocaine, infidelities, and painkillers almost make Steve request to be traded during the free agency period after he and Ryan bicker about Oliver Stone’s divisive 1999 film, Any Given Sunday. Does Steve’s complete lack of interest in professional sports bring this episode to a screeching halt? Yes. Can you tell who’s writing these summaries yet? Probably.

Any Given Sunday (1999)

d. Oliver Stone

Starring:
Al Pacino
Dennis Quaid
Cameron Diaz
James Woods
Jamie Foxx
LL Cool J
Matthew Modine
Jim Brown
Lawrence Taylor
Bill Bellamy
Ann-Margret
Aaron Eckhart
Elizabeth Berkley
Charlton Heston

Four years ago, DAmato's (Al Pacino) Miami Sharks were at the top. Now, his team is struggling with three consecutive losses, sliding attendance, and aging heroes, particularly 39-year-old quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid). Off the field, DAmato is struggling with a failed marriage and estranged children, and is on a collision course with Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), the young president/co-owner of the Sharks organization.


Things discussed in the show:

Platoon (Oliver Stone, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Depp)

Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Tommy Lee Jones)

His House (Remi Weekes, Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba)

Scarface

The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall)

People Under the Stairs

Us (Jordan Peele, Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss)

Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Michael Kenneth Williams)

Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Terry Crews, Rebel Wilson, Melissa McCarthy)

The Most Dangerous Game 1932 (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks)

Battle Royale

The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser, Stephen King, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto)

Surviving the Game (Ernest R. Dickerson, Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton)

Hard Target (John Woo, Chuck Pfarrer, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley)

Wilford Brimley saving us from diabetes with oatmeal

The Big Labowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Flea, John Turturro)

Nikolai Gogol and Ukrainian Cossacks

Goonies

Scanners (David Cronenberg, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan)

The Fly

James Gunn

Ben-Hur (William Wyler, Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Gore Vidal)

The Planet of the Apes 1968 (Franklin J. Schaffner, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter)

The Omega Man (Boris Sagal, Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash)

Barabbas 1961 (Richard Fleischer, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy)

Testament of Solomon

The Devils (Ken Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton)

Apostle (Gareth Evans, Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins)

Joss Whedon

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson)

Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit (Bill Duke, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith)

Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley)

Gladiator (Ridley Scott, David Franzoni, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen)

Spartacus Blood and Sand (Steven S. DeKnight, Andy Whitfield, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett)

Rome (Bruno Heller, William J. MacDonald, John Milius, Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker)