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Against All Odds (1984)
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2 March 1984 (USA)
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She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives. more
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A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 nominations
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(19 articles)
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This film does not work. Why not? Now there's a question...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rachel Ward | ... | Jessie Wyler |
 | Jeff Bridges | ... | Terry Brogan |
 | James Woods | ... | Jake Wise |
 | Alex Karras | ... | Hank Sully |
| Jane Greer | ... | Mrs. Grace Wyler |
 | Richard Widmark | ... | Ben Caxton |
| Dorian Harewood | ... | Tommy |
 | Swoosie Kurtz | ... | Edie |
 | Saul Rubinek | ... | Steve Kirsch |
| Pat Corley | ... | Ed Phillips |
| Bill McKinney | ... | Head Coach Stassen |
| Allen Williams | ... | Bob Soames |
| Sam Scarber | ... | Assistant Coach Sam |
| Jon St. Elwood | ... | Ahmad Cooper |
| Tamara Stafford | ... | Kirsch's Girlfriend |
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128 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Singapore:M18 |
USA:R (Certificate #27136) |
UK:15 (theatrical rating) |
UK:18 (video rating) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Canada:R (Ontario) |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 (1984) |
Peru:18 |
Sweden:15 |
West Germany:12
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The helmets and uniforms used by the football team Jeff Bridges is playing for were from the now-defunct USFL's LA Express.
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Continuity: In the scene where Terry and Jess are arguing on the "ball field" in Chichen Itza, as the camera switches back and forth between the two, in the background behind Jess a group of kids playing ball can be seen at the other end of the arena; when the camera cuts back to her, they're gone, and the next time the camera returns to her, they are visible again, albeit in the very edge of the frame.
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Jessie Wyler:
He said the only way I'd get away from him would be to kill him.
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Featured in The Best of Film Noir (1999) (V)
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MY MALE CURIOSITY
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This is the sort of film that you leave, recognizing that the film as a whole never "came together", but trying to figure out just WHERE it went wrong. The script was (or at least should have been) intelligent, the actors were competent... so what went wrong?
The best answer I could come up with (and heaven knows I'm no big shot Hollywood critic) was the way James Woods portrayed the character of Jake. This guy should have come off as a bigger-than-life, high-level Mafioso type; I got the impression of a cheap hood who tried to make himself look big as the front man for the real boss. When Jake orders the ex-football player to do a routine murder and the jock goes along with it, it doesn't underscore what a big man Jake is; it cheapens the lead character to think that he'd take orders to commit murder from the weaselly underling.
It didn't help this movie in the long run - okay, maybe its box office - that the continuous play of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" on radio and MTV effectively made this movie a must-see... and regardless of how good the tune was and what it was nominated for, the lyrics had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with what happened in the course of the movie.