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Based on the 1987 NFL strike, amateur players are recruited
to fill the uniforms of professional football players in this comedy. With Keanu Reeves,
Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton, Jack Warden, Jon Favreau, Rhys Ifans, Orlando Jones, Brett
Cullen, David Denman, Gailard Sartain, Art LaFleur, Faizon Love, Michael Taliferro and Ace
Yonamine.
SEX/NUDITY 6 - Several instances of sexual innuendo (including references to
lap-dancing, oral sex, masturbation and homosexuality) and one passionate kissing scene.
Several shots of scantily clad cheerleaders; in a couple scenes they touch themselves and
each other suggestively, pose in sexual positions, and dance as if they're stripping.
While dancing in a few different scenes, cheerleaders hold their clothed breasts, one
thrusts her hips, a woman smacks another woman's behind as she's bent over, a woman grabs
a bent-over woman's behind and presses her hips into it, and another pulls up her skirt
and reveals her panty-clad buttocks. A man licks his fingers and rubs his nipples on the
outside of his shirt, a man thrusts his hips suggestively, a woman pushes her tongue into
her cheek (in reference to fellatio), a man in his underwear grabs his crotch, and a man
gestures as if he's sticking his finger up his rear end. We see close-ups of a few
cheerleaders' underwear as their skirts fly up. A clothed man straddles another clothed
man and begins thrusting. A woman rubs ointment on a man's shoulder in a sensual way. We
see a man's bare buttocks; also, a man wearing a towel flashes another man (we only see
his towel-covered backside),
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - Numerous tackles, kicks, and hits on the football field;
in one scene a man is injured after being tackled. There's a bar brawl in which several
men kick and punch each other; one man gets thrown into a glass window. A man dunks
another's head in a drum of water, a man grabs another by the neck and chokes him, a man
grabs another's facemask and yanks his neck, a man punches another in the helmet and
knocks him down, a few scenes in which a man punches another in the head a few times, a
man headbutts another, a man knocks another onto the ground underneath a football tackle
dummy machine, and a man puts a knife against another man's cheek and threatens to stab
him. A few men push a truck over on its side; also, a man shoots a car several times. A
man has a cut on his nose and blood drips down his face on a few occasions. A man vomits
twice. People throw several eggs at a bus.
PROFANITY 6 - One F-word and several started but unfinished F-words, lots of
anatomical and scatological references, many mild obscenities, and a few insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Professional football, relationships, loyalty, second
chances.
MESSAGE - Second chances are opportunities to actualize your potential.
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