Year			1999
Genre			Comedy, drama
Length			1:44
Director			Brian Robbins
Writer			John Gatins W. Peter Iliff
Company			Paramount Pictures
Starring			James Van Der Beek Amy Smart Jon Voight Paul Walker Ron Lester Scott Caan Show more... James Van Der Beek Amy Smart Jon Voight Paul Walker Ron Lester Scott Caan Richard Lineback Ali Larter Tiffany C. Love Eliel Swinton Thomas F. Duffy Tonie Perensky Jill Parker-Jones

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion. The head coach is deified, as long as the team is winning and 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. In his 35th year as head coach, Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight) is trying to lead his West Canaan Coyotes to their 23rd division title. When star quarterback Lance Harbor (Paul Walker) suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon (James Van Der Beek), a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game. 'Varsity Blues' explores our obsession with sports and how teenage athletes respond to the extraordinary pressures places on them.