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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
Semi-Tough
They Lead The League In Scoring... After The Game!
1977 · 1h 48m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Michael Ritchie
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Semi-Tough
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Michael Ritchie Director
- Burt Reynolds as Billy Clyde Puckett
- Kris Kristofferson as Marvin "Shake" Tiller
- Jill Clayburgh as Barbara Jane Bookman
- Robert Preston as Big Ed Bookman
- Bert Convy as Friedrich Bismarck
- Roger E. Mosley as Puddin Patterson Sr.
- Lotte Lenya as Carla Pelf
- Ron Silver as Vlada Kostov
- Richard Masur Cast
- Carl Weathers Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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
Fresh
A delightful, gentle satire on the American ideal of winning, which also takes broad but often hilarious swipes at fashionable health fads.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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