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North Dallas Forty
Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
R
1979
1h 59m
Comedy
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Drama
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6.9
86%
70%
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A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
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Cast of North Dallas Forty
Nick Nolte
Phillip Elliott
Mac Davis
Seth Maxwell
Charles Durning
Coach Johnson
Dayle Haddon
Charlotte Caulder
Bo Svenson
Jo Bob Priddy
John Matuszak
O. W. Shaddock
Steve Forrest
Conrad Hunter
G. D. Spradlin
B. A. Strothers
Dabney Coleman
Emmett Hunter
Savannah Smith Boucher
Joanne Rodney
Marshall Colt
Eddie Rand
Guich Koock
Eddie Rand
Deborah Benson
Mrs. Hartman
Jim Boeke
Stallings
John Bottoms
Vip
Walter Brooke
Doctor
Alan Autry
Balford
Danny J. Bunz
Tony Douglas
Jane Daly
Ruth
Rad Daly
Conrad
Cliff Frazier
Monroe
Stanley Grover
March
Glenn-Michael Jones
Locker Boy
Frank O'Neill
Assistant Trainer
Tommy Reamon
Delma Huddle
Tom Reese
Coach Waddy
Jeff Severson
Partridge
Grant Kilpatrick
Monsignor
Kevin Cooney
Pete Peterson
Tony Frank
Rindquist
Doug France
Alcie Weeks
Debbie Turner
Lauren Jennifer Downing
Nanci Roberts
Michael Ballew
Ross Porter
Stephen M. Kienzle
David Lautrec
Ted Kotcheff
Director
Nancy Dowd
Writer
Rich Eustis
Writer
Frank Yablans
Producer
North Dallas Forty Ratings & Reviews
Photoplay
Photoplay Staff
Nick Nolte emerges triumphant as Hollywood's most likely successor to Burt Reynolds's crown of macho comedy king. Mac Davis, the country singer, is more than all right, too.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
Profanely funny, wised-up and heroically antiheroic, North Dallas Forty is unlikely to please anyone with a vested interest in glorifying the National Football League.
People Magazine
It's not damning with faint praise to say this is the best pro football movie ever -- and by yards.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Retains enough of the original novel's authenticity to deliver strong, if brutish, entertainment.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The football scenes are brutally real; the locker room scenes are totally authentic.
TV Guide
Pro football fans may be disillusioned by this excellent, honest, and often brutal expose of the play-for-pay game.
Variety
Variety Staff
The production is a most realistic, hard-hitting and perceptive look at the seamy side of pro football.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
The best football movie ever made.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
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.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
Raucous football tale with effective Nolte.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
North Dallas Forty reveals some of the reasons why the fun has been taken out of football.
Apollo Guide
Scott Renshaw
It's still fascinating to get a glimpse of what athletes sacrifice to entertain us. It would have been considerably more fascinating if more of the people involved had seemed more human.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
For a sports flick, this is unique and holds your attention for the most part.
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