ANY GIVEN SUNDAY (1999)

Football, at its very core, is savage and brutal — but that animalistic side is rarely presented on the big screen. In Any Given Sunday, director Oliver Stone captures all that furious energy — and packs in the drama with a pre-Ray Jamie Foxx as a quarterback long on skills (but short on maturity) and the usually sweet Cameron Diaz showing us she has a pair playing an ambitious team owner. —Mark Luckie