Varsity Blues 1999, Rated R Paramount Home Video

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1999 has been the year of the teen films. From The Faculty to She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You to Wing Commander, studio execs have realized that teenagers have allowances to spend, and are doing their damnedest to provide teens with movies that they will see en masse. Most of these films are more self-indulgent than anything else, with the producers spending more time marketing the films in question than making them, but this isn't always the case, as Varsity Blues proves. Dawson's Creek's James Van Der Beek stars as Jonathon Moxon, a second string high school quarterback in the football-crazed town of West Canaan, Texas. When the first string quarterback is injured, its up to Van Der Beek to step up and be 'the man'. Reminiscent of a high school The Program, director Brian Robbins has created an enjoyable slice-of-senior-year movie in Varsity Blues. I had a lot more fun than I expected watching this film.