Any Given Sunday [Director's Cut]

Director: Oliver Stone Oliver Stone

Overview

Oliver Stone takes on professional football, a sport whose grace and delicacy are a good match for his filmmaking style. Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little enthusiasm for the finer points of the game and is concerned only with the bottom line. The longtime strongman of Tony's team has been "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid), a 39-year-old quarterback, but Christina balks at renewing his contract. When Cap is injured during a game, third-string rookie quarterback Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) goes on in his place and becomes a major star. But Beaman is mostly interested in fame and money, and he has little regard for Tony and his teammates. Any Given Sunday also stars James Woods as the team's doctor, LL Cool J as a star running back, Jim Brown as a former football great turned Sharks' defensive coordinator, Ann-Margret as Christina's alcoholic mother, Bill Bellamy as a wide receiver, Elizabeth Berkley as Tony's favorite prostitute, and Charlton Heston as the football commissioner.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/03/2009
UPC:	0883929089017
Original Release:	1999
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:37:00
Sales rank:	25,779

Special Features

Closed Caption; Documentary full contact: the making of Any Given Sunday; Feature-length director and star commentaries; Music-only audio track; Deleted/extended scenes; 3 music videos; Jamie Fox audition tape / screen tests ; Gag reel; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Al Pacino	Tony D'Amato
Cameron Diaz	Christina Pagniacci
Dennis Quaid	Jack `Cap' Rooney
James Woods	Dr. Harvey Mandrake
Jamie Foxx	Willie Beamen
LL Cool J	Julian `J-Man' Washington
Matthew Modine	Dr. Ollie Powers
Charlton Heston	Commissioner
Ann-Margret	Margaret Pagniacci
John C. McGinley	Jack Rose
Jim Brown	Montezuma Monroe,Composer
Lawrence Taylor	Luther `Shark' Lavay
Bill Bellamy	Jimmy Sanderson
Lela Rochon	Vanessa Struthers
Lauren Holly	Cindy Rooney
Elizabeth Berkley	Mandy
Aaron Eckhart	Nick Crozier
Andrew Bryniarski	Patrick `Madman' Kelly
James Karen	Ed Phillips
Gianni Russo	Johnny Polito
Duane Martin	Actor
Clifton Davis	Mayor Tyrone Smalls
James Caviezel	Tom D'Amato
James Wood	Actor
John Daniel	Suitor in Christina's Box
Terrell Owens	Terrell Owens
Irving Fryar	Irving Fryar
Joe Schmidt	Joe Schmidt
Ricky Watters	Ricky Watters
Patrick O'Hara	Tyler Cherubini
Jerry A. Sharp	McKenna
Marty Wright	Beastman
Mazio Royster	Wide Receiver
Todd Smith	Wide Receiver
Jamie Williams	Tight End
Craig Thomson	Tight End
Greg Orvis	Tight End
Rick Johnson	Dallas Quarterback
Bjorn Nittmo	Kicker
Matt Martinez	Sharks Fullback
Pete Ohnegian	Sharks Center
Brian E. O'Neal	Sharks Linebacker
Sean Stone	Fan
Dick Butkus	Coach
Tony Gonzalez	Actor
L.L. Cool J.	Actor
Richard Horowitz	Composer
Paul Kelly	Composer
Camara Kambon	Composer
Robbie Robertson	Composer

Technical Credits

Oliver Stone

John Logan

Daniel Pyne

Oliver Stone	Director,Screenwriter,Executive Producer,Producer
John Logan	Screenwriter
Lauren Shuler Donner	Producer
Richard Donner	Executive Producer,Producer
Dan Halsted	Producer
Billy Hopkins	Casting
Clayton Townsend	Producer
Mary Vernieu	Casting
Michael E. Doyle	Special Effects
Tom Bahr	Stunts
Neal J. Anderson	Sound Effects
Patrick Phillips	Special Effects
Daniel Pyne	Screenwriter
Peter Devlin	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Football, arguably the most spectacle-oriented of sports, is given the highly stylized, seedy-underside presidential treatment by Oliver Stone in Any Given Sunday, a lengthy, star-studded drama with the most graphic gridiron sequences ever lensed. This is the anti-Brian's Song -- as certain to make you cringe as James Caan and Billy Dee Williams make you cry. As depicted by Stone, the average football game becomes a clash of titans, an epic undertaking of Homeric scope. His players achieve almost mythic proportions, crunching bones and straining sinews in slow motion as an angry sky hurls lightning down at them. Off the field, they become mere mortals with very real faults and frailties. Not unexpectedly, top-billed Al Pacino dominates this three-hour spectacle with his portrayal of the weary, cynical coach of the fictitious Miami Sharks, desperate for one more championship. Very unexpectedly, though, Jamie Foxx, previously a minor sitcom star, is quite convincing (albeit undersized) as the Sharks' upstart quarterback who goes from third string to superstar in a matter of minutes. Those two receive admirable support from Cameron Diaz as the team's ruthless co-owner, Dennis Quaid as the aging, injury-prone quarterback, and especially James Woods as the unethical team doctor. This is another in the string of smarmy, detestable roles that Woods has perfected for Stone movies (including Salvador and Nixon). Despite frequent lapses into over-the-top melodrama, Any Given Sunday is an unusually brutal examination of pro football and its tawdry ties to the media and big business. And as such, it makes for a much more explosive outing than your typical Sunday afternoon at the stadium.