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The Main Event (1979)
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Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 3
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A perfume magnate (Barbra Streisand), with plenty of chutzpah, falls victim to an embezzling employee who takes her for everything she owns. Well, almost everything.... There is one $60,000... A perfume magnate (Barbra Streisand), with plenty of chutzpah, falls victim to an embezzling employee who takes her for everything she owns. Well, almost everything.... There is one $60,000 investment that still belongs to her -- a washed up prizefighter (Ryan O'Neal) with a sore paw, whose talents had been purchased as a tax write-off. Seeing him as her only chance to recoup some of her former wealth, she decides to manage the mild-mannered boxer's career herself. Can she stimulate a return to championship form? [More]
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Patti D'Arbanville, Paul Sand
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Patti D'Arbanville, Paul Sand, Richard Lawson, James Gregory, Whitman Mayo, Richard Altman, Seth Banks
Director: Howard Zieff
Director: Howard Zieff
Screenwriter: Gail Parent, Andrew Smith
Producer: Jon Peters, Barbra Streisand
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