Varsity Blues (film)

Varsity Blues is a 1999 American comingofage sports comedydrama film directed by Brian Robbins that follows a smalltown high school football team and their overbearing coach through a tumultuous season. The players must deal with the pressures of adolescence and their footballobsessed 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.

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, Mox is dissatisfied with his life. He wants to leave Texas to go to school at Brown University. He is constantly at odds with his footballobsessed 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, remarking in a speech that in my thirty years of coaching at West Canaan, I have brought two state titles, anddistrict championships His philosophy finally takes its toll on Coyotes quarterback, Lance Harbor Paul Walker, Moxs best friend and Jules brother who has earned a full scholarship to play for Florida State. Lance 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.Mox, who has accompanied Lance to the hospital, is shocked when Kilmer feigns ignorance to Lances doctors about Lances knee problems, when in fact Kilmer ordered the trainer to inject the shots. In need of a new quarterback, Kilmer reluctantly names Mox to replace Lance as captain and starting quarterback. The move brings unexpected dividends for Mox, one of them being Darcy Sears Ali Larter, Lances beautiful blonde cheerleader girlfriend, who is interested in marrying a football player in order to escape smalltown life. She even goes so far as to attempt to seduce Mox, sporting a bikini made of whipped cream over her otherwise naked body, but he rebuffs her as gently as he can. ........

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