Scrawny and short, high school quarterback Johnny Walker (Anthony MichaeI Hall, Sixteen CandIes) is America's most unlikely football prospect. Johnny finds himseIf in the enviabIe position of being courted by the country's top football recruiters. However, he's torn between waiting for a top offer with big bucks, egged on by his best friend Leo (Robert Downey, Jr., lron Man) or joining his girIfriend, Georgia (Uma Thurman, Kill Bill) at a coIIege where he can pursue a weIl-rounded education. The temptation for a big payday, coupIed with Iavish gifts and promises of fame & fortune are just a few of the roadblocks he'Il navigate in this comedy with heart, Johnny Be Good.
Directed by Bud Smith from a screenplay written by Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai and David Obst, the supporting cast includes PauI GIeason (The Breakfast CIub), Jennifer Tilly (BuIIets Over Broadway), Seymour CasseI (Minnie and Moskowitz, Valentino) and cameos by famed sportscaster Howard CosselI and footbalI quarterback Jim McMahon. |