A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
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.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
25 Jan 2008
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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.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
25 Jan 2008
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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.