Starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Frank Langella. and Ellen Burstyn.

This is a very good sports film that could have been a whole lot better — better for what should have been left out. Putting aside the fact that this movie is a 109 minute commercial for the National Football League, which is to be expected, there was absolutely no need to periodically kill the momentum of the story of this tension-filled day with the domestic melodrama of a ridiculous pregnancy subplot. Exactly who the producers were trying to appeal to with this story line I have no idea.  At least they spared us the cliche scene of the woman with morning sickness throwing up.  If it’s important for you to see that, you can find it in the extras in the deleted scenes.  Frankly, I think Jennifer Garner deserves much better roles than The Pregnant Girlfriend, especially in a movie where such a character is superfluous.