Leatherheads

In 1925, Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly (George Clooney) convinces Princeton University's football star, Carter "the Bullet" Rutherford (John Krasinski), to join the Duluth Bulldogs, a struggling professional American football team. Chicago Tribune newspaper reporter Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger) has been assigned to prove Carter's war heroics are bogus, but finds herself in a love triangle with Dodge and Carter. As the story unfolds, Carter's war heroics are called into question, and Lexie and Dodge must navigate their feelings amidst the controversy.