Roseanne Arnold, her then-husband
Tom Arnold and
Shelley Duvall teamed up to produce the made-for-TV
Backfield in Motion.
Roseanne plays a widowed real-estate agent who lives with her teenaged son
Johnny Galecki. Mother and son have moved to an upstate California town where high school football-and male chauvinism--reigns supreme. When
Galecki joins the junior-varsity team,
Roseanne, appalled by the subservient behavior of the town wives, organizes a "mothers vs. sons" football game.
Tom Arnold costars as the school's vice-principal, who puts his standing in town on the line when he falls in love with
Roseanne.
Backfield in Motion was originally telecast November 13, 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide