North Dallas Forty (1979)

Directors

Ted Kotcheff

Cast

Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Svenson

The story

In the late-1970s, Phil Elliott plays wide receiver for the North Dallas Bulls professional football team, based in Dallas, Texas, which closely resembles the Dallas Cowboys. Although considered to possess "the best hands in the game", the aging Elliott has been benched and relies heavily on painkillers. Elliott and popular quarterback Seth Maxwell are outstanding players, but they characterize the drug-, sex-, and alcohol-fueled party atmosphere of that era.

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