Draft Day (2014) (Movie)

format_quote Sonny Weaver Jr.: (on the phone with his mother) You're on Twitter?
Barb Weaver: You're not?
Coach Penn: (enters with flaming papers in his hand) I'm sorry, Sonny, is this a bad time?
Sonny Weaver Jr.: I gotta go, Mom!
(hangs up)
Coach Penn: This is the draft analysis we've all been working on for the last two weeks...
(throws the burning pages onto the desk)
Rick the Intern: (background) Fire! Ali, fire! ALI, FIRE!
Ali: I'm coming!
(enters with a fire extinguisher and puts out the fire)
Ali: Can I get you gentlemen some coffee?
Sonny Weaver Jr.: Love some.
Coach Penn: Light and sweet, honey, thanks.
Ali: Yeah, I'm not getting you idiots anything.
(walks out)
Coach Penn: I like her.

stars  Kevin Costner who portrayed Jonathan Kent (Superman/Clark Kent's Earthly father) in Man of Steel (2013) stars in this film alongside Tom Welling, famous for his role of Clark Kent in Smallville (2001).

stars  Characters talk about the live theater play Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Denis Leary (Coach Penn) has played Captain George Stacey in Spider-Man movies.

stars  'Kevin Costner' who portrayed Jonathan Kent in Man of Steel (2013) stars in this film alongside Tom Welling, famous for his role of Clark Kent in Smallville (2001).

stars  Sonny trades three first-round draft picks (in addition to that year's #7 pick) for the #1 pick of the draft. So to swap the #7 for #1 he gives up three future first-round picks. Sonny then trades three second-round picks for the #6 pick of the draft. Then he swaps #6 for his original #7, the future first-round picks he traded away, plus a special teams player. With the picks, he gets the LB he originally wanted at #1 and a RB at #6.

stars  In the movie, Kevin Costner's character Sonny Weaver Jr. relays an anecdote about Joe Montana spotting the actor John Candy in the crowd during the 1989 Superbowl. Kevin Costner and John Candy appeared together in J.F.K.