While I’ve never been a sports fan, I do however enjoy most movies centered on or around sports.
And that made it easy enough to check out “80 for Brady” last weekend.
Well, that and the comedy-filled trailer I’ve seen everywhere for the past few months.
While “80 for Brady” is billed as a comedy flick kicking off February, it has a bit more depth to it.
In fact, there’s a great depiction of lifelong friendship and living one’s dreams that comes as a complete – but lovable – maturity, too.
Plus, there’s nothing quite like seeing all of those NFL players and former players in a movie as secondary characters.
I know more works the leading ladies have acted in versus those athletics stars.
80 for Brady is a sports comedy film directed by Kyle Marvin, written by Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern, and produced by former NFL quarterback Tom Brady.
The film follows four lifelong friends who travel to watch Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI in 2017.
It stars Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field, Brady, Billy Porter and Guy Fieri.
The movie is rated PG-13 for brief strong language, some drug content and some suggestive references and clocks in at 98 minutes long.
Best friends Lou (Tomlin), Trish (Fonda), Maura (Moreno) and Betty (Field) are settling down to watch a New England Patriots game in 2017.
Each friend has to recreate whatever they were doing at their first game watched.
It’s their superstition that gives them the hopes that the football team wins their respective game.
Once the game is over, they’re watching a podcast talk about the game and offer Super Bowl Li tickets to a group of four friends that leaves their best “reason why they should win” message on their hotline.
It inspires Lou to have them each phone in with the hopes of winning the tickets.
She tells them that they should win the tickets because their story is the best one.
There’s a flashback sequence then showing how they got together and started making Patriots’ football their weekly gals’ night activity.
The group is surprised but excited and goes to work the next day calling in and leaving their messages.
Lou realizes while writing her story down that they wouldn’t win and not phoning in.
Later, she gathers her friends together and shows them a four-pack of tickets, including hotel and airfare.
The group gets ready to fly the next day and when Maura takes her medicine, she passes out.
That leads the others on a quest to break her out of her senior living center.
One hilarious roadblock leads to another and the proverbial “road trip” movie is flying down to Houston for the game.
Overall, the movie is solid and has an all-star cast leading the helm.
Even if some of the jokes are a bit corny and embarrassing, it still has heart.
It’s also a great movie for couples, dates, girl’s night or grandparents and teenage grandchildren.
