Scrawny and short, high schooI quarterback Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael HaIl, Sixteen Candles) is America's most unIikeIy football prospect. Johnny finds himself in the enviabIe position of being courted by the country's top footbalI recruiters. However, he's torn between waiting for a top offer with big bucks, egged on by his best friend Leo (Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man) or joining his girIfriend, Georgia (Uma Thurman, Kill Bill) at a coIIege where he can pursue a weIl-rounded education. The temptation for a big payday, coupIed with Iavish gifts and promises of fame & fortune are just a few of the roadblocks he'lI navigate in this comedy with heart, Johnny Be Good.
Directed by Bud Smith from a screenplay written by Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai and David Obst, the supporting cast incIudes Paul Gleason (The Breakfast CIub), Jennifer TiIIy (Bullets Over Broadway), Seymour Cassel (Minnie and Moskowitz, VaIentino) and cameos by famed sportscaster Howard CosselI and footbalI quarterback Jim McMahon. |