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He plays Bruce Pritchard, a football player - that's soccer player to us Americans - whose legs give out and he has to live in a home for invalids.
Professional football was all the rage in the 1970s and a phenomenon Hollywood recognized.
Several football movies were made in the 1970s (and some non-football movies, like ROLLERBALL) which were inspired by the violent sport's massive popularity.
NORTH DALLAS FORTY was made to satiate the thirst of avid football fans to see what they weren't been shown on regular television broadcast: drugs, violence, sex and cursing.
So ND40 basically plays like a voyeuristic behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in a professional football team.
The fact that there are almost no African American football players in the team should tell you how dated it is.
But to my mistake, the storyline steers of course of the footballing world bringing in a twist of family life which was almost suddenly killed of by the stress of which football brings.
Every little boy's dream is to play football at a professional level but this film gives us an inside view as to what goes on off the pitch and in my opinion doesn't have enough twists in the story.
As i'm a football fanatic i loved the matches they played and the 3-2 comeback in the Champions League final was amazing but so predictable.
And they're dumb enough to be playing football in the minefield just when "Our Hero" needs motivation.
THE PLOT: A divorced mother of two (Hawn), who coaches a high school girl's track team, decides she wants to live out her dreams by coaching football instead.
I enjoy films about football very much, but the football is secondary here.
Thats okay, it still tells you about one of the greatest players ever in college football.
I've seen better football played by five year olds.
This is one of the worst films I've ever seen, but a couple of the girls are worth looking at on a bored afternoon inbetween the AWFUL acting and badly choreographed football.
it shows u how u feel about the game and if u want 2 become a professional football wit love involved i just wanna no wen goal 3 is out because that has 2 be better because she is pregnant and who's the father i think we know its munez's baby.! and i reckon this has become a gr8 movie from goal because it means anything is possible so u don't have to have trails for teams you can just be spotted u never know in the years 2 come but i just cant wait until goal 3 comes out because thats just going to be fantastic so thanks for looking at my comment and hope 2 comment again soon about goal 3 this time thanks
Although it and the town were both fictional, it truly captures the feelings about football in Alabama.
Every Friday night, the whole town supports their team at the high school football field, no matter how small that town is or how bad their team really is.
The attention to detail in the football seemed much better in that other play too, here it seemed rather desultory - a sequence of blokes cheering when goals went in and looking glum when they didn't.
She's romantically paired with Randolph Scott (!.... sorry but this takes some getting used to for western fans) who plays a football player with gusto!
This film isn't a gut buster, like watching a football to the groin, but the comedy suffices, and the writing does enough to fill the time of the two leads enough to hash out a plausible, likable film.
However, the movie highly exceeds my expectations for a football movie.
Both are victimized by the gay sports teacher on the football field a couple of times and in the end the boy, Jesse, will come to ask for help from his friend, Grady, and the first reaction will be nearly openly gay even if denied in some side remark, and Freddy will kill Grady through, from inside the body of Jesse : if that is not a repressed homosexual desire, what is ?
Firstly i can totally empathise with the lead character.... even down to the the fantastic choice of bands displayed on his wall (the Jam and the Specials although i am not too sure about Patti Smith myself!) We've all probably been in the situations Gregory finds himself in during the movie and this just brings it all back... playing football in the school team (and chatting nonchalently to spectators when should have been keeping an eye on players bearing down on goal), getting into scrapes with teachers and of course that first date with the girl of your dreams.
In addition to these characters there's a whole slew of fantastic characters such as Steve whos obsessed with his baking enterprise, the eccentric headmaster ("off you go, you small boys,") and of course Mr Menzies the bumbling PE teacher who isn't really taken seriously by the other male teachers in the school and is obsessed with putting together the perfect football team.
I think that if a movie is to be made about football, realism is quite important.
As much to do with remembering a great summer, football provides the backdrop for this amusing comi-drama.
Great football scenes.
"Wildcats" is a football movie that is pretty predictable, but nevertheless it's very entertaining.
Goldie Hawn gives another one of her many funny film performances here as a girls high school track coach who's always dreaming about coaching football since she grew up on the sport.
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