A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Washington PostK.C. SummersIt's both biting and prescient in its satirical message that details the contrast of the desires of selfish individual player taking precedence over the team mentality that the coaches encourage in the locker room. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldProfanely funny, wised-up and heroically antiheroic, North Dallas Forty is unlikely to please anyone with a vested interest in glorifying the National Football League. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThe production is a most realistic, hard-hitting and perceptive look at the seamy side of pro football. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowIt's not another rah-rah football film. Thanks to Nolte, it has its own form of true grit. |
| Los Angeles TimesMartin MillerPro football fans may be disillusioned by this excellent, honest, and often brutal expose of the play-for-pay game. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe central friendship in the movie, beautifully delineated, is the one between Mr. Nolte and Mac Davis, who expertly plays the team's quarterback, a man whose calculating nature and complacency make him all the more likable, somehow. |
| TimeRichard SchickelThe picture breaks down awkwardly when it tries to express directly what it has already said better by implication. This generally occurs in earnest scenes between Elliott and his all too dense girlfriend. Dayle Haddon's inexperienced playing adds nothing even faintly convincing to the badly written love interest, and the rest of the film has to struggle to recover from the resulting dead spots. Still, North Dallas Forty retains enough of the original novel's authenticity to deliver strong, if brutish, entertainment. |
| The PlaylistGabe ToroTed Kotcheff’s film is essentially a workplace comedy, but the employees are braindead and wealthy, and the benefits are glory and groupies in equal amounts. |
| The Observer (UK)Philip FrenchSomething of a mess, both in terms of the wayward plot which rambles all over the place, and in terms of the rather muddled juggling of audience sympathies. |
| Apollo GuideScott RenshawIt'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. |
