Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Svenson ...( see more  see more... ) , John Matuszak , Steve Forrest , G.D. Spradlin , Dabney Coleman , Savannah Smith Boucher , Marshall Colt , Guich Koock , Deborah Benson , Jim Boeke

A very savvy, 1978 film directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) dealing with the seamier side of professional football. Phillip Elliott and Maxwell (Nick Nolte and Mac Davis, respectively) are players ...( read more  read more... )for a Texas football team loosely based on the championship Dallas Cowboys. Though at the peak of his football career, Elliott is a personal and physical mess, needing all manner of drugs prescribed by the team physician to play and even to move around. The indifference of the team management and the hypocritical stance toward recreational drug use versus the drug abuse practiced by the players leads to a crisis of conscience for Nolte. The combination of Nolte's volatile presence and Davis's understated performance as the quarterback who thinks he's seen it all helps make North Dallas Forty one of the best sports films around. --Robert Lane

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R, 1 hr. 58 min.

Directed by: Ted Kotcheff

Release Date: August 3, 1979

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DVD Release Date: January 30, 2001

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  • April 11, 2009
    Watch this movie...it will change your outlook on football. Adapted from a book by a former Dallas Cowboy's player.
  • March 28, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • October 11, 2008
    This movie is great, it needs to be remade in today's twisted sports world. A funny version of "Any Given Sunday"
  • August 30, 2008
    its not a bad football movie. I love the fact that it whos the football players in not a good light. Its shows their flaws and the football sequences are very good.

    The acting especially by Nick Nolte when he realizes he is getting fired at the end of the movie is heartbreakin...( read more)g. The script is all right. There are some bad dialogue and the music ruins the film quite a bit.

    worth watching even if your not a fan of the sport
  • July 24, 2007
    Been there done that
  • May 24, 2007
    It's a must-see, but not a great movie.
  • May 24, 2007
    You gotta see this, just because it's based on the story of the Dalas Cowboys of the same time period. The 70's were crazy, anyway.
  • March 21, 2007
    Greatest football movie ever!
  • March 17, 2007
    Love this movie! Watch it damn it!

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