Varsity Blues Page #6

Synopsis: In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion. The head coach is deified, as long as the team is winning and 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. In his 35th year as head coach, Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight) is trying to lead his West Canaan Coyotes to their 23rd division title. When star quarterback Lance Harbor (Paul Walker) suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon (James Van Der Beek), a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game. "Varsity Blues" explores our obsession with sports and how teenage athletes respond to the extraordinary pressures places on them.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Brian Robbins
Production: Paramount Pictures
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
R
Year:
1999
106 min
Website
1,222 Views


They're going again.

- On the left ! On the right !

- Look at all those receivers.

Five ?

Gonzalez, complete.

They hurry to the line of scrimmage.

Long pass...

Touchdown !

While they celebrate,

I have a question :

- Where in the world is Bud Kilmer ?

- He's nowhere to be found.

Let's go, defence !

- They're punting it.

- And we're out of time-outs.

- If we don't block this, it's over.

- Coach Lance, put me in. We'll block it.

- You wanna play defence ?

- Put me in there, we'll block it !

Get out there.

Gilroy leads 17 to 14.

Billy Bob has come into the game.

Charley Tweeder blocks the punt !

He blocks the punt !

Billy Bob opens a hole up for Tweeder.

- What a great job !

- They still have a chance.

Twins right, Z-out on one. Tweeder,

make sure you get out of bounds.

Ready ? Break !

Tweeder didn't get out of bounds.

The clock is still running.

Quick ! On the ball !

Get down !

Billy Bob, this is it. The man who

got us here. Are you ready ?

You don't think that lame-ass play

where I act like I'm lost is gonna work ?

Split left 90, hook and ladder,

on one. Ready ? Break !

Touchdown ! Touchdown ! Touchdown !

Oh my God ! Billy Bob !

- Good gosh almighty !

- Billy Bob ! Coyotes win !

Coyotes win ! Coyotes win !

Mox !

Excuse me... Mox !

- Mox !

- Down, down, down.

Wait a minute.

I thought you only kissed heroes.

And for some of us,

it ended without us knowing.

Maybe these were the last days.

I never played football again.

But I will never forget that day.

Billy Bob cried

'cause he's a bit of a cryer.

And Tweeder drank beers 'cause...

Well, Tweeder drinks beer.

Lance is happy. He found his calling

as a football coach.

Wendell got his ride to Grambling.

That statue still stands, but only

because it was too heavy to move.

Kilmer never coached again.

I took my scholarship and

will graduate from Brown University.

The day was ours...

...and no one can ever take it away.

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W. Peter Iliff

W. Peter Iliff was born in 1957. He is a writer and director, known for Point Break (1991), Point Break (2015) and Patriot Games (1992). more…

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