Varsity Blues

(1999)

as Jonathan Moxon

Taglines: Make your own rules.

In a town where winning is everything, these guys have nothing to lose.

It takes a hero to know what's worth winning.

Plot: In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion. The head coach is deified, as long as the team is winning and 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. In his 35th year as head coach, Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight) is trying to lead his West Canaan Coyotes to their 23rd division title. When star quarterback Lance Harbor (Paul Walker) suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of Jon Moxon (James Van Der Beek), a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game. "Varsity Blues" explores our obsession with sports and how teenage athletes respond to the extraordinary pressures places on them.

Other Noteworthy Actors: Paul Walker, Scott Caan

James Quotes: "I don't want your life!"

[Billy-Bob] I sure do love that dog.
[Mox] I think it's a pig.
[Billy-Bob] Yeah.

None-James Quotes: "Jonathan Moxon, you're under arrest for not being naked with some Sophmore chick who wants to bathe you with her tounge! Now take off your God damn clothes and get in the car!"--Tweeder

"Now I want y'all to repeat after me: penis, penis, penis; vagina, vagina, vagina!"--Miss Davis

[Miss Davis] Can anyone tell me a common slang term for the male erection?
[Student] Boner? Is boner one?
[Miss Davis] Yes! Boner is good, boner is very good!

*staring at Miss Davis's breasts* "Miss Davis, would you go to the prom with me?"--Billy Bob

Triva: The book Mox is reading on the sidelines, hidden inside the team playbook, is "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Same as in Disturbing Behavior.

The High School Fight Song played at the pep rally is the Texas A&M War Hymn.

In the scene where Darcy sports her whipped-cream-bikini, shaving cream was used. Whipped cream wouldn't stick right.

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My Thoughts: This is such a good movie, i had to go out and buy it. It has not only a delicious cast (Paul, James, and Scott), but a good plot line. It'll have you cheering for the guys, and booing the coach (and in my case, the whipped-cream-bikini part).