Varsity Blues
First screened in December 2018
Director: Brian Robbins. Cast: James Van Der Beek, Ron Lester, Paul Walker, Scott Caan, Jon Voight, Amy Smart, Ali Larter, Thomas F. Duffy, Jill Parker-Jones, Joe Pichler, Richard Lineback, Tiffany C. Love, Jesse Plemons, Eliel Swinton, Brady Coleman, Mark Walters, James N. Harrell. Screenplay: W. Peter Iliff. Twitter Capsule:
Some longstanding high-school and sports-movie clichés, combined with new ones. Highest compliment? I've seen worse.
VOR:②
No bounds get broken here, but I was surprised by overt coding of Voight's coach as a fascist avatar. Not quite a critique of patriarchy, but not not.
