I love it when my expectations of a movie are broken, at least when I have bad expectations that is. I thought this was going to be another dumb but funny MTV movie. Let me tell you...it was hilarious, but far from dumb. The story revolves around a small football town and its players. I don't want to give too much away so I'm not going to discuss the plot except to say that it was extremely well written. You care about all of the characters and you watch them develop. The dialouge may not be as technical as Dawson's Creek but it is well written. James Van Der Beek does an outstanding job as the scholar/football player and the preformances by up and coming actors Ron Lester and Scott Cann. Jon Voight also made an excellent "villian" so to speak. I higly reccomend this movie to pretty much anyone. I honestly can't think of anyone that wouldn't like this film.