Fresh
Retains enough of the original novel's authenticity to deliver strong, if brutish, entertainment.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
North Dallas Forty
Wait till you see the weird part.
1979 · 1h 59m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
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North Dallas Forty
Overview
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Director and cast
- Ted Kotcheff Director
- Nick Nolte as Phillip Elliott
- Mac Davis as Seth Maxwell
- Charles Durning as Coach Johnson
- Dayle Haddon as Charlotte Caulder
- Bo Svenson as Jo Bob Priddy
- John Matuszak as O. W. Shaddock
- Steve Forrest as Conrad Hunter
- G.D. Spradlin as B. A. Strothers
- Dabney Coleman as Emmett Hunter
- Savannah Smith Boucher as Joanne Rodney
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The football scenes are brutally real; the locker room scenes are totally authentic.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
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.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
The production is a most realistic, hard-hitting and perceptive look at the seamy side of pro football.
Variety
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