Movie Information
Overall Rank: 3522
Average Rating: 2.8/4
# of Ratings: 29
Theatrical Release Date: 08/03/1979
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Actors: Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Bo Svenson, Dabney Coleman, Dayle Haddon
Plot: Wide-receiver Phil Elliot of the North Dallas Bulls may have the best hands in football but is not considered a team player by his coach. Phil will do anything to keep his battered body in the game but the hard life he is living off the field is beginning to catch up to him. -- The WHB
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3/4
Alaine - wrote on 12/12/2011
Realistic feeling film about pro football close up and painful. Good performances by all. Not at all what I was expecting. Started out way macho and full of testosterony baloney, but got down and serious pretty quickly. Not much football played, more about the players and the business.
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