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Paper Lion is a 1968 sports comedy film starring Alan Alda as writer George Plimpton, based on Plimpton's 1966 nonfiction book of the same name depicting his tryout with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League.
Paper Lion: Directed by Alex March. With Alan Alda, Lauren Hutton, Joe Schmidt, Alex Karras. Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
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- Comedy, Sport
- Alex March
- 1968-10-14
The movie is "an amiable fiction" based on the real story, we are told. Plimpton bids his wife and editor goodbye, goes to training camp, manages to fool the players for about 24 hours, lands in some bruising scrimmages, weathers the hostility of the pros, and wins a sort of grudging respect from them.
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With one film appearance under his belt, he landed the lead in the feature adaptation of George Plimpton's popular memoir Paper Lion (1968), and the end result has remained an enduring comedy favorite for football devotees.
- Alex March, Peter Scoppa, Ted Zachary
- Alan Alda
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An expert at participatory sports journalism -- he's already pitched poorly in a baseball game and been flattened in a boxing match -- the Harvard-educated, high-society New Yorker decides to give...
- Comedy
No one is willing to allow a klutzy amateur to go on the field for fear he'll kill himself. After several teams turn him down, Plimpton got the Detroit Lions to let him go to training camp. He tries to keep his true identity a secret from the real players.
