Leatherheads

film by Clooney [2008]

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  • George Clooney
    In George Clooney

    …in the 1920s football film Leatherheads and then reteamed with the Coen brothers for Burn After Reading, a CIA comedy in which he played an adulterous federal marshal. Clooney later starred as a U.S. soldier trained to use mind control in the comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009),…

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Krasinski

  • John Krasinski
    In John Krasinski: Career

    …Renée Zellweger in the film Leatherheads. Krasinski took most of the money he made from the pilot of The Office and bought the rights to David Foster Wallace’s short story collection, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, making his movie directorial debut in 2009 with the film adaptation. After The Office

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Zellweger

  • Renée Zellweger
    In Renée Zellweger

    Potter; George Clooney’s football comedy Leatherheads (2008); the coming-of-age story My One and Only (2009); and the further sequel Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016). She played a woman who encourages her art-dealer husband to befriend a homeless man in Same Kind of Different As Me (2017), which was based on the…

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