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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.”
The Social Network – Movie Trailer
Oct 1st
Director David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven) teams with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) to explore the meaning of success in the early 21st century from the perspectives of the technological innovators who revolutionized the way we all communicate. The year was 2003. As prohibitively expensive technology became affordable to the masses and the Internet made it easy to stay in touch with people who were halfway across the world, Harvard undergrad and computer programming wizard Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) launched a website with the potential to alter the very fabric of our society. At the time, Zuckerberg was just six years away from making his first million. But his hearty payday would come at a high price, because despite all of Zuckerberg’s wealth and success, his personal life began to suffer as he became mired in legal disputes, and discovered that many of the 500 million people he had friended during his rise to the top were eager to see him fall. Chief among that growing list of detractors was Zuckerberg’s former college friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), whose generous financial contributions to Facebook served as the seed that helped the company to sprout. And some might argue that Zuckerberg’s bold venture wouldn’t have evolved into the cultural juggernaut that it ultimately became had Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) not spread the word about Facebook to the venture capitalists from Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer and Josh Pence) engage Zuckerberg in a fierce courtroom battle for ownership of Facebook that left many suspecting the young entrepreneur might have let his greed eclipse his better judgment. The Social Network was based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.
