10.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Action, Comedy • 2025 • 20 min
Starting Quarterback (2025)
Starting Quarterback (2025)
Overview
Starting Quarterback is a 20-minute action-comedy short about two former high school quarterbacks who reunite to take down a drug cartel. The buddy-cop setup is straightforward, and the available evidence on political framing, social values, or identity themes is essentially empty. The Progressive label here is based on thin signals rather than clear content drivers. With confidence scores near zero across most categories, this is a case where the label reflects an absence of traditional or religious framing more than a presence of progressive messaging. The film reads as a light genre exercise, and readers should treat the label as provisional.
Starring Cast
David Vorderstrasse
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Not Rated
Viewer Rating
10.0
Overview
Starting Quarterback is a 20-minute action-comedy short about two former high school quarterbacks who reunite to take down a drug cartel. The buddy-cop setup is straightforward, and the available evidence on political framing, social values, or identity themes is essentially empty. The Progressive label here is based on thin signals rather than clear content drivers. With confidence scores near zero across most categories, this is a case where the label reflects an absence of traditional or religious framing more than a presence of progressive messaging. The film reads as a light genre exercise, and readers should treat the label as provisional.
Starring Cast
David Vorderstrasse
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Primary
Political: Not Rated
Web evidence is insufficient to determine any political bias or framing.
Diversity: Not Rated
Web searches yield only a minimal IMDb listing for this short film with no details on casting, character backgrounds, or story themes that would allow assessment of representation or narrative framing.
Secondary
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes appear in this short action-comedy about two former high school quarterbacks reuniting to stop a drug cartel.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film centers on two former high school quarterbacks reuniting to stop a drug cartel in an action-comedy plot with no transgender characters or themes depicted.
Female Combat: No
Confidence: High
The film centers on two male former quarterbacks recruited to stop a drug cartel. Available plot summaries and cast details mention female characters including Janine but provide no descriptions of any close-quarters physical combat victories by women against men.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Original short film with new characters; two former high school quarterbacks team up in a buddy action-comedy against a cartel. No legacy or source-material characters recast across genders.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Original short film with newly created characters and no source material or prior canon establishing any character's race.
Family Values: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
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10.0
Critic Ratings
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