North Dallas Forty (1979)
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Critic Consensus: Muddled overall, but perceptive and brutally realistic, North Dallas Forty also benefits from strong performances by Nick Nolte and Charles Durning. Football fans will likely find it fascinating.
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as Phil Elliott
as Seth Maxwell
as Coach Johnson
as Charlotte Caulder
as Jo Bob Priddy
as Conrad Hunter
as B.A. Strothers
as Emmett
as Joanne
as Art Hartman
as Eddie Rand
as Mrs. Hartman
as Stallings
as Vip
as Doctor
as Balford
as Tony Douglas
as Ruth
as Conrad
as Monroe
as March
as Sportscaster
as O.W. Shaddock
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Profanely funny, wised-up and heroically antiheroic, North Dallas Forty is unlikely to please anyone with a vested interest in glorifying the National Football League.
Retains enough of the original novel's authenticity to deliver strong, if brutish, entertainment.
The football scenes are brutally real; the locker room scenes are totally authentic.
The production is a most realistic, hard-hitting and perceptive look at the seamy side of pro football.
Something of a mess, both in terms of the wayward plot which rambles all over the place, and in terms of the rather muddled juggling of audience sympathies.
The leading man, Nick Nolte, has a physical authority and a clowning, irreverent manner that lend the film some semblance of continuity, even when it's about to flounder.
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