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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Burt Reynolds | ... | Billy Clyde Puckett | |
| Kris Kristofferson | ... | Marvin 'Shake' Tiller | |
| Jill Clayburgh | ... | Barbara Jane Bookman | |
| Robert Preston | ... | Big Ed Bookman | |
| Bert Convy | ... | Friedrich Bismark | |
| Roger E. Mosley | ... | Puddin Patterson Sr. | |
| Lotte Lenya | ... | Clara Pelf | |
| Richard Masur | ... | Phillip Hooper | |
| Carl Weathers | ... | Dreamer Tatum | |
| Brian Dennehy | ... | T.J. Lambert | |
| Mary Jo Catlett | ... | Earlene Emery | |
| Joe Kapp | ... | Hose Manning | |
| Ron Silver | ... | Vlada Kostov | |
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James MacKrell | ... | Bud McNair (as Jim McKrell) |
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Peter Bromilow | ... | Kostov's Interpreter |
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A comedy about two football players and their mutual girlfriend. Includes many spoofs and parodies about various self-help groups and personal self-improvement seminars that were wildly popular during the 1970's. Written by <keath@webtv.net>
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american football | football player | self help group | dangling from a rooftop | satire |Taglines:
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19 May 1978 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
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The fictional football teams in the film are generic, having no team names or mascots. They are simply known by their home cities. See more »Goofs
During the wedding rehearsal there is a child carrying the bride's train. Camera cuts to a shot from the altar where the child is seen dropping the train. Cut to a shot from the isle toward the altar and the child is seen dropping the train again. See more »Quotes
Billy Clyde Puckett: [responding to a knock at the bathroom door] Just shit and push it under the door.See more »
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Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson team up to play a pair of amiable pro-football players in Semi-Tough a good natured comedy about these two and the owner'd daughter. Sounds like you should be waiting for punchline and in a sense the whole film is one.
Jill Clayburgh is the owner's daughter, the owner being Robert Preston who is a flamboyant Texas millionaire and owner of the Dallas football team which for copyright reasons is never referred to as the Cowboys.
Having grown up with the team Clayburgh is on a first name basis with all the players and they treat her with due deference. She'd like a little more going with either Reynolds or Kristofferson, but can't make her mind up which one. It's almost like Crosby/Hope/Lamour without any songs.
Some nice performances will be found from masseuse Lotte Lenya, fake motivational speaker Bert Convy, and also the best from Brian Dennehy as a defensive end who's really abusing the steroids. It's from Dennehy that we get some potentially serious moments in an easy going film.
Fans of the leads should appreciate Semi-Tough.