Varsity Blues (1999)
Directed by Brian Robbins
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon, a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game.
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My sole cultural reference point for race car driving is Talladega Nights, which I mistakenly rented my freshman year of college in lieu of Varsity Blues.
Mega superstar Justin Timberlake - headlining his first feature in quite some time - feels right at home and though Cherly Guerriero’s screenplay radiates with a “Varsity Blues” meets “Gifted” attitude, there’s plenty to embrace including an important take on toxic masculinity.
Ali Larter (1999's "Varsity Blues"), in the other central role, is also effective, as a girl whose life was going well until her father died in a convenience store shooting years before, leaving her stuck with an increasingly uncaring mother who married a loutish man--the exact opposite of her now-deceased father.
This isn’t another rehash of “Varsity Blues.”