Leatherheads
“If Love Is a Game, Who'll Make the First Pass?”
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero... everyone could lose out.
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Drama
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Leatherheads performed
Budget
$58.0M
Worldwide Gross
$41.3M
Gross Profit
−$16.7M
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$6M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly
George Clooney
Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly
Lexie Littleton
Renée Zellweger
Lexie Littleton
Carter Rutherford
John Krasinski
Carter Rutherford
Coach Frank Ferguson
Wayne Duvall
Coach Frank Ferguson
Suds
Stephen Root
Suds
CC Frazier
Jonathan Pryce
CC Frazier
Harvey
Jack Thompson
Harvey
Mack Steiner
Max Casella
Mack Steiner
Curly
Matt Bushell
Curly
Zoom
Nick Paonessa
Zoom
Bakes
Malcolm Goodwin
Bakes
Stump
Robert Baker
Stump
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