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Draft Day – Movie Trailer
Apr 21st
On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver (Costner) has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.
Draft Day “Special Insight”
Apr 16th
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
DRAFT DAY stars Kevin Costner as Sonny Weaver Jr., the general manager of the Cleveland Browns professional football team, whose job is even more important every May when the NFL teams select the college football players they want to play for their teams.
There are 32 teams and seven rounds of drafting, the order of which is determined by where the teams finished overall the previous season and by what picks they have from deals with teams during trades and previous draft days.
Cleveland didn’t do well the previous season, and Sonny gets a lot of phone calls from people trying to influence him with his picks.
The hot player this year is quarterback Bo Callahan, the Heisman Trophy winner who is expected to be chosen by whoever ends up getting the first pick in the first round.
As Sonny says to one football player during his conversations, “You only get drafted once,” which shows just how important draft day is to the players who are turning professional.
Even the owner of the team, played by Frank Langella, puts pressure on Sonny, and right away we see the wheeling and dealing that goes on between teams as they negotiate among themselves for higher picks.
When Sonny talks to other team managers, we see aerial shots of that team’s stadium, and Sonny makes a deal with the Seattle Seahawks on his way to work that is going to upset some members of his staff.
Also, the movie uses fancy editing techniques during split-screen shots when two people are talking on the phone.
Well, news must travel fast in football, and by the time Sonny gets to work, people know about the deal and assume that because of it, Cleveland gets to pick Bo Callahan.
One person who isn’t happy is Brian Drew, the Browns quarterback who was injured last season, but who has worked hard to rehabilitate himself, doesn’t want a new quarterback drafted, and trashes Sonny’s office when he hears about the deal.
Now, those of you who follow football know that not all players who are picked high in the draft succeed professionally.
Others know that not all good college quarterbacks succeed, either.
DRAFT DAY shows special insight into what goes on during draft day, and it is surprisingly emotional and suspenseful right up until the end.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
“Valentine’s Day” Predictable and Sappy
Feb 18th
Predictable and Sappy
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
VALENTINE’S DAY is stuffed with stars, filled with stories, overflowing with romance, and you don’t have to be in love to enjoy it.
But it couldn’t hurt, because chances are you can probably spot one of your own love stories.
Here are the stars: Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts, and Taylor Swift.
And here are just some of the stories, which all pretty much intersect because of the characters and which all come full circle at the end of the day, which of course is Valentine’s Day.
Kutcher plays Reed Bennett, who owns a flower business, and as he tells Alphonso, one of his employees, when they are out making a delivery, “Everyone is romantic on Valentine’s Day.”
And Reed should know, not just because of his business and all the deliveries that he and Alphonso will make during the course of the day, but also because that morning Reed proposed to his girlfriend, and she said yes.
However, the results do not turn out the way that he expected, as we shall see.
Then there is Kelvin, a TV sportscaster, who is ordered by his producer to take a camera crew out onto the streets and interview people about Valentine’s Day, because the station wants more “fluff.”
The new boyfriend of a charming elementary school teacher is a doctor and can’t be with her on this day because he has to fly to San Francisco and perform an operation, but he has a secret that he is keeping from his girlfriend.
A wealthy businessman sits next to a woman captain in the Army for a 14-hour flight from overseas. She is going to be able to spend just one day with her special “Valentine” before she has to fly back to duty.
A couple of high-school sweethearts are planning to make this a very special day in their relationship.
A professional football player who might be retiring holds a press conference to reveal his own secret.
And the characters and stories just go on and on.
VALENTINE’S DAY is predictable and sappy, and the ending is completely heart-wrenching, but not in the way you would think.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
