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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 10, 2002
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Turner Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Turturro | |
Performer: | John Heard, Brad Beyer, Nicholas Turturro, Kevin Anderson, Patti Lupone, Zak Orth, Chad Coleman, Jay Thomas, Jeffrey Thomas, Steve Schirripa, Michael McGrath, P.J. Brown, Dominic Chianese, Leo Burmester & Eli Wallach | |
Directed by | Ernest Dickerson | |
Screenwriting by | Bill Carter |
Entertainment Reviews:
Monday Night Mayhem [is] a reasonably strong telling of Cosell's rise as an American icon and "MNF" as an entertainment paragon.
Full Review
Variety
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Now here's a film that reads fairly ho-hum, but once it's final credits have rolled you'll agree you've just watched one of the more stimulating and interesting telemovies of recent times
Moviehole
Patti LuPone doesn't have enough to do as Cosell's wife, Emmy. On the other hand, we see more than enough to make us cringe at everybody else, especially Chad L. Coleman's O. J. Simpson.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Product Description:
Roone Arledge (John Heard) had a crazy, costly idea in the early 1970s to bring pro football to the ABC network by airing it on Monday nights. The project required a big production with more camera angles and even a broadcasting team of three in the booth. The trio turned out to be "Dandy" Don Meredith (Brad Beyer), Frank Gifford (Kevin Anderson), and the brash Brooklynite Howard Cosell (John Turturro). Cosell's outspoken demeanor and intellectual edge on his ex-athlete partners built rivalries causing all parties to feel a lack of respect. Add to this mess, a gambling addicted director in Chet Forte (Nicholas Turturro) and scandals revolving everything from racial slurs to alcoholic miscues and it is amazing that such a show could steer clear of failure. On the contrary, MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL completely changed sports broadcasting. This TNT film dramatizes all the madness.
Cosell is the focus of the production, portrayed by Tuturro as a misunderstood intellectual who yearned to excel outside of sportscasting, a field dominated by dim bulb jocks. Ernest Dickerson (BONES) brings a knowledge of the game and a feel for the period to his direction.
Cosell is the focus of the production, portrayed by Tuturro as a misunderstood intellectual who yearned to excel outside of sportscasting, a field dominated by dim bulb jocks. Ernest Dickerson (BONES) brings a knowledge of the game and a feel for the period to his direction.
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- UPC: 053939664423
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