S03E07: Everybody's All-American

Craig Calcaterra joins us this week for a very sports-movie-y sports movie: Everybody's All-American, a "one wedding and one long funeral" look at a college gridiron star's early peak and interminable fall that doesn't know which set of Quarterback Agonistes clichés it wants to use, and recycled Sophie's Choice's Stingo as Timothy Hutton's Cake, with merkinacious results. The three of us had a lot of questions -- why the hot cousin is A Thing in the Quaidverse, why the movie isn't about Jessica Lange's Babs and Carl Lumbly's Blue, and how Wayne Knight feels about that "Fraternity Pisser" credit, just for starters. At least Craig was a good sport about watching this dud, even

Overall score: 3
QQQ score: 3

SHOW NOTES

• Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
• Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
• Roger Ebert's review
• Janet Maslin's review
• John Cheever, "O Youth and Beauty!"