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Everybody's All-American is a 1988 American sports drama film, released internationally as When I Fall in Love, directed by Taylor Hackford and based on the 1981 novel Everybody's All-American by longtime Sports Illustrated contributor Frank Deford.
Nov 4, 1988 · Everybody's All-American: Directed by Taylor Hackford. With Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman. A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.
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- Drama, Romance, Sport
- Taylor Hackford
- 1988-11-04
“Everybody’s All-American” represents the stories of a lot of great athletes who decline uneasily into the memories of middle age. For every Frank Gifford who finds a career on television, there are 100 other old pros who do their play-by-plays night after night to a handful of strangers in a bar.
Everybody's All-American is a novel by longtime Sports Illustrated contributor Frank Deford, published in 1981. It was made into a motion picture, directed by Taylor Hackford.
Quaid and Lange are football royalty but struggle through a rocky marriage and life. Though it's long, it does provide a narrative that is rare: faithfulness through adversity and mistakes. And ...
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- Taylor Hackford
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- Jessica Lange
Gavin, nicknamed the Grey Ghost, is the star captain of the U of L football team, he who was the key player in last year's Sugar Bowl win and already voted All-American. Gavin realizes that his notoriety will only last as long as he continues to score touchdowns.
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Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he ...