‘80 for Brady’ review: Fonda, Moreno, Field and Tomlin give their all for a halfway football flick

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Tom Brady says he’s retiring from football for real this time. But along with his Super Bowl rings, and that nagging string of resume asterisks on the topic of suspicious football air pressure levels, he’ll always have “80 for Brady.”

Some movies are sports merchandising tie-ins, plain and simple; this one’s plainer and simpler than most. The man in the title, who also appears in a key supporting role as himself, produced this project. How’d it come about?

In brief: Hollywood agent Max Gross, currently with the agency William Morris Endeavor, has a Patriots-fan grandmother, Betty Pensavalle,now 94. She and her friends formed an “Over 80 for Brady” fan club, and Gross had special jerseys made up for them. He thought they’d make a cute movie. So did Brady’s production company. And here we are.

There wouldn’t be much “here” here if it weren’t for Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Field playing wholly invented versions of the real ladies. Far from biopic-land, sceenwriters Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins take the kernel of the premise — friends of a certain age, bound by Brady love — and pop up a bucket of fictionalized popcorn, to occasionally funny and determinedly heartwarming results.

For years, the movie’s four Massachusetts ladies have gathered on Super Bowl Sunday with special attention paid to games involving their cherished Patriots. Over those years, ringleader Lou (Tomlin) has survived cancer, buoyed by her friends’ love and support. Fonda plays romance novelist Trish, whose NFL fan fiction includes the discreetly erotic potboiler “Between a Gronk and a Hard Place.”

Moreno’s Maura, a widow since the previous year, has attracted a friend and suitor, Mickey (Glynn Turman). Practical, buttoned-up Betty (Field) is married to a sweet, semi-hapless professor (Bob Balaban). The ladies contrive a way to secure tickets to the Super Bowl in Houston. The movie’s set in 2017, the year the Patriots played the Falcons in a memorably ridiculous comeback saga. What happens next? Betty loses track of the golden tickets during a superhot chicken wing-eating contest hosted by superstar chef Guy Fieri.(Guy Fieri plays Guy Fieri; at one point, after ingesting hallucinogeic gummies, one of the ladies imagines she has transformed into Guy Fieri.)

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