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Like the historical feud between Evolutionists vs. Creationists, Ivan Reitman's Draft Day retaliates against 2011's number-crunching Moneyball to suggest that hand-picking a team is just as much about heart and values as it is statistics and salaries. With only 12 hours until the NFL's ceremonial draft day, Kevin Costner's Sonny Weaver Jr., GM of Cleveland Browns, wrestles with his faith in the unseen qualities of potential hires. Does he sacrifice everything for audience-drawing, might-be-a-douchebag star QB Bo Callahan (Josh Pence) or pick up the righteous, linchpin linebacker Vontae Mack (Chadwick Boseman) and finally cobble together the dream team he's always imagined?

Eons of sports movies spoil the ending of Sonny's occupational crisis, but slick filmmaking and Costner's earnest gravitas turn Draft Day into a propulsive, behind-closed-doors experience. The actual draft looks like a slog of a process. Reitman imbues the mundane task of athletic headhunting with the bravado of Rudy's final moments.

With 12 hours on the countdown clock — literally, a ticking clock superimposed over the action to make the Draft feel like an actual sport — Sonny is stuck without a recruitment plan. There's an offer on the table from the Seahawks: The number one pick a.k.a. Bo Callahan for the Browns' number one picks for the next three years. Rallied between two General Managers, the wheeling and dealing sounds as heavy as Israeli–Palestinian negotiations. When Cleveland Browns owner Harvey Molina (Frank Langella) hints to Sonny that his job is on the line if he can't find a way to make a press-worthy “splash” this draft, the deal is sealed. The Browns will take Callahan, the Seahawks will reap the rewards, and everyone outside the circle — Sonny's logistics team and Browns head coach Vince Penn (Denis Leary) — will lose their minds over the ludicrous terms.

counteroffers from other teams. Sitting quarterback Brian Drew (Tom Welling), after a year of rehab and pumping himself up to the best shape of his life, goes ballistic. Mack commits the ultimate sin: Tweeting the rumors with troll-like animosity. Sonny tries to calm his allies, but his own hesitations keep him questioning the decision. Like his late father, the Browns' previous coach, Sonny believes in honest players. The GM won't sign Callahan without knowing if he's a “good man.” So he investigates, spinning his teammates requests like plates while sticking his nose into football history.

To beef up Draft Day's obvious will he/won't he hook, writers Scott Rothman & Rajiv Joseph pile on parallel hurdles for Sonny to jump. The Browns' salary manager and Sonny's girlfriend Ali (Jennifer Garner) is pregnant and tired of their covert office relationship. She wants answers, and despite the looming Draft, Sonny wants to deliver. Then there's his mother (Ellen Burstyn), who thinks the night of the NFL draft is the best time to scatter her dead husband's ashes across the practice field.

The contrived dramatic defensive line can't keep Costner from doing what he does best. Like his horseback cowboys or ball-playing underdogs, Sonny is another meditative Costner character, confident yet never cocksure. The gravity and conviction he endows a line like “You only get drafted once” gives Draft Day a much-needed backbone. When the movie cranks up the overly-inspiring sports soundtrack, it echoes Costner — not the rather than the other way around. His heated trade proposals are like a thunderous drum line, his reassuring words of wisdom graceful like a string quartet. When he tells the story of 1989 San Francisco 49ers vs Cincinnati Bengals Super Bowl, where Joe Montana, despite the 49ers being down three points with three minutes to go, takes a down moment during a play to notice that John Candy was in attendance, Costner sounds like pastor delivering a sermon. Draft Day is basically Noah for sports fans.

Reitman, of Stripes, Ghostbusters, and more recent comedies like No Strings Attached, finds a stylistic middle-ground between his effects-driven blockbusters and naturalistic comedies. Without too much football action to stir the pot, the director whisks us between walk-and-talks, often clashing split-screen phone calls so they bleed into each other. It's easy to imagine the controlled chaos of a franchise's actual Draft day. Reitman orchestrates it with welcome vivacity. The movie integrates actual “Draft day” footage from Radio City Musical Hall, adding to the aura of self-importance.