Any Given Sunday
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- For the Australian sports television show, see Any Given Sunday (television show).
Any Given Sunday is a 1999 movie directed by Oliver Stone starring Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, John C. McGinley, Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Lauren Holly, Bill Bellamy, Lela Rochon, Elizabeth Berkley, and current WWE wrestler Marty Wright (a.k.a. the Boogeyman). The movie also featured many real-life former football greats including Jim Brown, Lawrence Taylor, Dick Butkus, Y.A. Tittle, Pat Toomay, Warren Moon, Johnny Unitas, Barry Switzer, and current football player Terrell Owens. NFL player agent Drew Rosenhaus also is featured in the film (coincidentally, Rosenhaus is now Owens' Agent).
The movie was filmed in Miami, Florida and Dallas, Texas. The movie disguises the Orange Bowl stadium as the home of a fictitious football team, the Miami Sharks, and disguises the Texas Stadium as the home of another fictitious team, the Dallas Knights. Both teams, along with many others created just for the film, belong to the fictitious sports league, the Associated Football Franchises of America or AFFA (loosley based on the real life USFL). Al Pacino plays the coach of the Miami Sharks and Cameron Diaz plays the team owner.
Other than the Miami Sharks, other teams that played a large part in the story were the Minnesota Americans, Chicago Rhinos, California Crusaders, New York Emperors, and the Dallas Knights.
Also, after the first game, we get a quick look at the entire Miami Sharks schedule for the season. Other teams are the Seattle Prospects, Colorado Blizzard, Washington Lumbermen, Los Angeles Crushers, Kansas Twisters, and the Arizona Rattlers.
The action is centered on four pivotal characters: coach Tony D'Amato (Pacino), quarterbacks Cap Rooney (Quaid) and Willie Beamen (Foxx), and the owner of the team Christina Pagniacci (Diaz). When starter Jack "Cap" Rooney is sacked and seriously injured in a game which the Sharks are losing, and backup QB Tyler Cherubini is injured, D'Amato is obliged to bring on third-stringer Beamen. Beamen makes a significant contribution to the team, and his spectacular progress reinvigorates the Sharks to the extent that they make the play-offs. However, Beamen's style antagonises D'Amato, not least because he deliberately ignores the plays which D'Amato calls.
Against this background, there is antagonism between D'Amato and Pagniacci, who is determined to modernise the team and progress; D'Amato, a traditionalist, resents her intrusion into aspects of the game which he considers to be his own domain as coach.
Tagline: Life is a contact sport
The film is particularly notable for the quality of the photography and editing by Salvatore Totino.de:An jedem verdammten Sonntag fr:L'Enfer du dimanche sv:Any Given Sunday