Leatherheads



What do you get when you combine a hard-nosed sports reporter and a romantic liaison with the very subjects she is assigned to cover, Add to the mix the fact that she falls for not one, but two of them, and both at the same time. That’s what this movie is all about.

Lexie Littleton is a hard-nosed sports reporter who has made a name for herself with the quality of reportage she turns in on each assignment. She’s captured the hearts of two of her subjects who are now competing for her affections in this classic 1920’s style love triangle in which she now finds herself. An aging football star fancies himself her man and wines and dines Lexie, believing himself very much the man worthy of her affections. But what he doesn’t know is that he has competition and from an unlikely source – a rising young college football star whose youthful good looks will likely give him a serious run for his money.

The whole purpose of this film, I believe, is to leave the viewer on the edge of their seat. Who will she pick, Will she go for the youthful, though inexperienced, love interest or the one who probably offers so much more world-worn experience, and probably feelings of a much deeper nature.

The film is comedic in nature, and the premise provides so much opportunity for good comedy. But it is a serious film too, and one that shows that good looks often don’t run too deep and sometimes we are better off foregoing them in the alternative presents something far more meaningful, something far more worth our attention and devotion.

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