Which brings us, unavoidably, to "Leatherheads, " the disappointingly leaden, if eager-to-please attempt by George Clooney, the movie's star and director, to evoke the screwballcomedies of Hawks, Cukor and Sturges.
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Ilsa had thought the film was a return to the screwball romantic comedies of the nineteen-thirties, but Mrs.