Any Given Sunday (Director's Cut) (DVD)

Life is a contact sport and football is life when three-time academy award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in Any Given Sunday. At the 50-year line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony D'Amato, the embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) who's sure Tony is way too old school. An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid), a flashy, bull-headed backup QB (Jamie Foxx), a slithery team doctor (James Woods) and a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook. And throughout, there's the awesome spectacle of motion, sound and action orchestrated by Stone.

Starring: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, John McGinley, John C. McGinley, Sean Stone, Tony Gonzalez, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Aaron Eckhart, Jim Brown, Lawrence Taylor, Bill Bellamy, Lela Rochon, Lauren Holly, Elizabeth Berkley, James Karen, Gianni Russo, Duane Martin, Clifton Davis, Rick Johnson, John Clark, Eric Miller, Robert Gordon, Richard McKenzie, Kevin Reid, Jamie Williams, Tyler Cravens, Allan Graf, Steve Raulerson, Oliver Stone, Barry Switzer, Mark Ellis, Lester Speight (The Mighty Rasta), Dick Butkus, Johnny Unitas, Michelle Beisner, Jaime Bergman, Nichole Robinson, Delia Sheppard, Michael Stone, Antoni Corone, Melinda Renna, Nyle Wiren, Nikki Novak, Warren Moon, Mercy Lopez

Director: Claude Jaeger, Clayton Townsend, Dan Halsted, Lauren Shuler-Donner, Richard Donner

Rating: R