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Semi-Tough
Sign in to saveSemi-Tough is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Lotte Lenya, and Bert Convy. It is set in the world of American professional football.
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5.5A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Cast
- Burt Reynolds as Billy Clyde Puckett
- Kris Kristofferson as Shake Tiller
- Jill Clayburgh as Barbara Jane Bookman
- Robert Preston as Big Ed Bookman
- Bert Convy as Friedrich Bismarck
- Roger E. Mosley as Puddin
Themes
- sports
- american football
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Ratings
IMDb
5.9/10
3,594 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
83%
Metacritic
68/100
- Year
- 1977
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance, Sport
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Adaptation
- Preparation
- Parodies of self-improvement, new religions
- Reception
- Box office and releases
- Awards
- Critical reception
- See also
- References
- External links
Semi-Tough is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Lotte Lenya, and Bert Convy. It is set in the world of American professional football.
The film is based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Dan Jenkins. It was adapted for the screen by writer Walter Bernstein and director Ritchie, who added a new storyline that included a satire of the self-help movement and new religions.The film includes a parody of Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training (est), depicted in the film as an organization called "B.E.A.T.".
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