Collider - Once you’ve gorged yourself on potatoes and pie, and the turkey coma begins setting in, the last thing you want to do is go outside and toss the pigskin around with Junior. Why exercise when there’s plenty of football to just watch on TV? It’s the American way! But if you’re not interested in watching the perennial Lions and Cowboys matchups, perhaps a football-themed movie will do instead. “But there’re so many to choose from and my brain is full of stuffing!” you say. Never fear! We’ve done all the grunt work for you. What follows is the five best movies ever to grace the gridiron. Hit the jump to check out the Collider Thanksgiving Top 5 Football Movies. Down, set, hike! If you missed any of our previous “Thanksgiving Top 5″ articles, click here.
Following a decade in which he’d made controversial, incendiary movies about the Kennedy assassination, the life of Richard Nixon, and a pair of serial killers, director Oliver Stone closed off the 1990s with another epic movie, about…professional football.
The force is strong young Padawan, here's our handpicked selection of some great sequences in film.
Shadowlocked - If I were to ask the common man or woman for the name of just one famous director, I'd expect to hear the same names repeated over and over again. Spielberg; Lucas; Abrams; Scorsese; Shyamalan - and so the list continues. Very few would mention the name of Frank Coraci, but in this writers opinion, it's a name that deserves to be mentioned amongst the very best.
Water boy is hilarious!
Brian's Song was so sad but it was a great movie and was based on a true story like The Blind Side. I don't usually like to watch sad movies but they were good.