The Best of Times is a 1986 American film. It starred Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. Robin Williams plays Jack Dundee, a banker obsessed with what he considers the most shameful moment in his life: The moment that he dropped a perfectly thrown pass in the final seconds of the 1972 high school football game between Taft and their arch-nemesis, Bakersfield. Since that game, Jack has found it impossible to forget his drop. He works in a bank for his father-in-law, a.k.a. The Colonel, Bakersfield's biggest supporter, and is reminded by him almost daily, that it was his clumsiness and inability... to catch a football that lost Taft its one chance for glory by finally beating Bakersfield, and how Taft would never do it again. Thirteen years later, Jack coerces Reno , star quarterback of the fateful game and now a financially struggling garage owner in debt to Jack's bank, into helping him replay the game. He convinces supporters in both towns to re-stage the game and in the process revitalizes Taft, as well as his and Reno's marriages. The game is replayed and at the critical moment Reno throws another perfect pass to Jack. He catches it, and Taft defeats Bakersfield.
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| Release date: | 1986 |
| Directed by: | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fredda Weiss |
| Music by: | Arthur B. Rubinstein |
| Cinematography: | Charles F. Wheeler |
| Screenplay by: | Ron Shelton |
| Genre: | Comedy |