Everybody's All-American (1988) on Netflix
Gavin Grey is the star captain of his Louisiana college football team and an All-American. His girlfriend Babs Rogers, the homecoming queen, has her eye on the Miss Louisiana pageant.
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Plot summary
In 1956, Gavin Grey, nicknamed the Grey Ghost, is the star of his Louisiana campus after a Sugar Bowl win and an All-American season. Babs Rogers, the homecoming queen he is dating, wants the Miss Louisiana crown and, beyond that, a life as Gavin's wife and a mother. Gavin's nephew Donnie McCaslin is another admirer of Babs; Ed Lawrence is Gavin's teammate and friend; Narvel Blue plays as well as Gavin but has no path to the professional game; and businessman Bolling Kiely wants whatever he can get from the famous Grey Ghost. Gavin understands that his fame lasts only while he keeps scoring touchdowns.
Cast
- Joseph Meyeras Pep Leader
- J. Kevin Bruneas Roommate
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Everybody's All-American (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Filming halted for weeks after Dennis Quaid had his collarbone broken by former New England Patriots cornerback Tim Fox during a football scene. The shot of Quaid rolling in pain on the sidelines of the snow game was kept and appears in the finished film.
- Snow began falling while a candlelight parade with large numbers of extras was being shot on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol. Director Taylor Hackford threw the beautiful footage away and reshot the scene, because snow in Baton Rouge in November is so rare that he feared audiences would read it as a special-effects blunder.
- The football action was shot in LSU's Tiger Stadium during the half-time breaks of real 1987 games, and the modern goalposts were disguised for each take: extra vertical posts were slid into place to form the vintage "H" and a multi-colored fabric cover hid the modern center support post.
- The producers asked LSU fans to stay in their seats after the Alabama game of 7 November 1987 so crowd scenes could be finished. Alabama pulled off an upset, and ten minutes later the only people left in the bleachers were wearing crimson, so the shoot had to wait for the Mississippi State game a week later.
- Michael Apted was set to direct Thomas Rickman's script in 1982 with Tommy Lee Jones as the leading man, until Warner Bros. balked at the $16 million price tag, at Jones and at the poor overseas record of American football films. Warren Beatty, Robert Redford and Robert De Niro all circled the project during its six years in development hell.
- Frank Deford's novel was written about the University of North Carolina, but the university refused to let the film shoot there, suspecting that the story defamed its campus legend Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice. The production went to LSU instead.
- Once filming moved to LSU, rumors spread that Gavin Grey was modeled on Billy Cannon, the 1959 Heisman winner who played eleven professional seasons and then served two and a half years in federal prison over a counterfeiting ring. Frank Deford denied it, saying he never met Cannon and knew nothing about him personally.
