Charm offensive

Long on old-timey fun and a few fumbles, Leatherheads manages to score | Megan Basham

Universal Pictures

With all his political axe-grinding in projects like Syriana and Good Night and Good Luck, it's easy to forget that while George Clooney is a first-rate actor, he possesses something that many other first-rate, axe-grinding actors don't—star quality.

Clooney, when he wants to, can display all the charm and wit of a modern-day Cary Grant. And it is mainly due to his charisma that Leatherheads (rated PG-13 for language), a 1930s-style comedy about 1920s-era football, manages to stay afloat despite several failings.

In a time when the popularity of college football far outweighed that of its professional counterpart, pro running back Dodge Connelly (Clooney) pulls every trick in the book to keep his team, the Duluth Bulldogs, afloat. After overhearing that Ivy League games pull in more than 40,000 ticket buyers, he devises a plan to recruit Princeton quarterback Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski) to resuscitate his dying league.

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April 19, 2008, Vol. 23, No. 8

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