With Football season starting, I was trying to think of some 80s movies about football. There are several great baseball movies and Hoosiers is a great basketball movie from that decade, but there are not a lot of football movies to look at. There were really two that came to mind.

First, there is the 1983 film All The Right Moves which starred Tom Cruise in what was really his first starring role. Cruise plays a high school football player hoping to get a college scholarship to allow him to leave the struggling blue collar town he grew up in. The film also stars Craig T. Nelson, Leah Thompson and Chris Penn. Here is the original trailer for All The Right Moves...

That is actually a very underrated movie, but the next one is far from that. That is the 1986 comedy Wildcats starring Goldie Hawn as a woman who takes the rare opportunity to coach the boys' football team at an inner-city high school. The movie has its moments and is somewhat entertaining, but it is quite predictable and just not as funny as you would hope it would be. This film also featured Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes and even LL Cool J in smaller roles. Here is the original trailer for Wildcats...

So, those are the two football movies from the 80s that I remember best. I guess you could also include the Anthony Michael Hall film Johnny Be Good (1988) or the Robin Williams/Kurt Russell film The Best of Times (1986) as well. Are there any other 80s football movies that you recall?

I am stoked for the NFL season to get going. This is my favorite time of the year!

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