Varsity Blues (film)
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| Directed by | Brian Robbins |
| Produced by | Brian Robbins Michael Tollin Tova Laiter |
| Written by | W. Peter Iliff |
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| Music by | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography | Chuck Cohen |
| Edited by | Ned Bastille |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $16 million |
| Box office | $54,294,169 |
Varsity Blues is a 1999 American coming-of-age sports comedy-drama film directed by Brian Robbins that follows a small-town high school football team and their overbearing coach through a tumultuous season. The players must deal with the pressures of adolescence and their football-obsessed community while having their hard coach on their back constantly. In the small (fictional) town of West Canaan, Texas, football is a way of life, and losing is not an option.
The film drew a domestic box office gross of $52 million against its estimated $16 million budget despite mixed critical reviews.
Jonathan "Mox" Moxon (James Van Der Beek) is an intelligent and academically gifted backup quarterback for the West Canaan High School football team. Despite his relative popularity at school, easy friendships with other players, and smart and sassy girlfriend Jules Harbor (Amy Smart), he is dissatisfied with his life. He wants to leave Texas to go to school at Brown University. He is constantly at odds with his football-obsessed father, Sam (Thomas F. Duffy), and dreads playing it under legendary coach Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight), a verbally abusive, controlling authority who believes in winning "at all costs". He has a strong track record as coach, in thirty years of coaching at West Canaan, he has won two state titles, and 22 district championships. His philosophy finally takes its toll on quarterback, Lance Harbor (Paul Walker), Mox's best friend and Jules' brother who has earned a full scholarship to play for Florida State. He is manipulated into taking anesthetic shots into an injured knee that finally succumbs to failure and results in even greater injury during gameplay. He is rushed to the hospital, where doctors are appalled at the massive amount of scar tissue found under his knee.
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