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Created Sep 02, 2007 03:41PM PST • Edited Sep 23, 2020 03:43PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   The original manly tear-jerker football movie. So what if it was made-for-TV. Big time movie stars (led by a never better James Caan) and a compelling drama of adversity gamely addressed in the shadow of superstardom make Brian’s Song one for the ages.

4. Acting

   Really Great 4.5

   Not only James Caan, but Billy Dee Williams and Jack Warden deliver two of their best performances in Brian’s Song.

   As the graceful superstar Gale Sayers, Billy Dee Williams portrays the real life NFL legend as we’d like to believe he was: shy, pure and unaffected.

   Jack Warden’s performance – along with his role a few years later in Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait – typecasts the persona of the gruff but decent coaching elder.

5. Male Stars Really Great 4.5

6. Female Stars Really Great 4.5

7. Female Costars Really Great 4.5

8. Male Costars Really Great 4.5

10. Film

    Good 3.0

11. Direction Good 3.0

12. Play Great 4.0

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Good 3.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.2

17. Sex Innocent 1.2

18. Violence Gentle 1.2

19. Rudeness Polite 1.2

21. Reality

    Glib 1.2

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.2

23. Biological Glib 1.2

24. Physical Glib 1.2