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Semi-Tough (1977)

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Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson star as two pro-football pals who both fall for the team-owner's very rich daughter. Kind of goofy, kind of funny, and somewhat endearing--those are the qualities that surface in this light-hearted comedy built upon an extremely predictable scenario. ~ Rovi

R, 1 hr. 47 min.

Comedy

May 8, 2001

MGM

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Semi-Tough begins as a bawdy and lively romantic comedy about slap happy pro football players, then slows down to a too-inside putdown of contemporary self-help programs.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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A delightful, gentle satire on the American ideal of winning, which also takes broad but often hilarious swipes at fashionable health fads.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Set against the backdrop of professional football, Semi-Tough is both a three-cornered romantic comedy and a scathing satire of self-help movements.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Burt Reynolds does what he's best at in a lightweight rom-com with some good one-liners, but it's the parodies of the self-improvement culture that really make the film watchable.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Semi-Tough

This film pokes fun at the self-help, empowerment movements of the 1970's more than anything else. I never saw what the big deal with Jill Clayburgh was. This film rates somewhere above Gator but below The Longest Yard.

June 10, 2011
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This movie came out in 1977 and basically makes fun of all the fads going on in the late 1970's. The football story is just a background story used to bring in the different fads. Unfortunately if you didn't live through that era you probably won't get the jokes. There was a lot of crazy stuff going on in the

May 17, 2007
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