The Best of Times (1986)

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance. A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

The Best of Times is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and written by Ron Shelton. It stars Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as two friends attempting to relive a high school football game.

Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat, Margaret Whitton, M. Emmet Walsh, Donovan Scott, R.G. Armstrong, Dub Taylor, Carl Ballantine, Kathleen Freeman, Charles F. Wheeler, Roger Spottiswoode, Garth Craven, Fredda Weiss, Gordon Carroll, Ron Shelton: Movies & TV

Small-town banker Robin Williams has never been able to live down the fact that he dropped an important pass during a crucial high-school football game. Likewise tainted for life is the team's star quarterback Kurt Russell, now a garage owner. Fed up with living his life under a cloud, Williams hits upon a brilliant idea: he will stage a rematch-13 years after the fact--with the members of the rival team. Trouble beckons when Williams' father-in-law announces that he's rooting for the opposition. Williams is determined to win, and in pursuit of that goal he pushes his former teammates to hitherto untapped brilliance. Directed by Roger Spottiswood, The Best of Times was written by Ron Shelton, future writer/director of such delightful sports films as Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump and Tin Cup; it was Shelton, in fact, who directed most of Best of Times' climactic football game.

Everyone has something they would do over. For one man, it’s a dropped pass from a high school football game, and he's determined to replay that game.

The New York Times

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Jack's the big loser of a high school football game; years later, he wants to replay the game.

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A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

SKU:3557038 Release Date:02/02/1999

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A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.