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’80 for Brady’ Review: Female Friendship Comedy Bolsters Shiny NFL Propaganda Piece

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commercial, a warm-blooded advertisement of what football — and by extension the NFL — could be, if it wasn’t for all the things that it actually is.

To that end, “80 For Brady” could not, for the life of itself, predict how the last six months would go for Brady, the golden god of the film, who has come out of retirement, gone through a rough divorce and possibly lost much of his sports fortune to poor cryptocurrency investments.But the women at the helm of “80 For Brady” are true fans; they don’t care about any of that administrative drama, the political mumbo-jumbo.

If they even know about any of Brady’s troubles, that goes unsaid. Their journey to the Super Bowl is much less about the game (though it’s always about the game) and more about a commemoration of their friendship, a coming-of-age film for those who have long been of age.

The Super Bowl trip stands to give these women a chance to get out of their comfort zones: for Lou to embrace spontaneity, for Fonda’s Trish to take another swing at love, for Moreno’s Maura to, um, get over the loss of her husband by being really good at gambling (don’t think too hard about it), and for Field’s Betty to find her independence away from her husband (a bumbling and sweet Bob Balaban).

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