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Critics say this film is pretty fun for a formula sports flick: "brisk and wholehearted and smarter than you expect" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek plays a second-string quarterback thrust into the spotlight of a football-obsessed Texas town when the star is injured.
An article details the desperation among the second-string candidates.