Semi-Tough

Name: Semi-Tough
Genre: Sport, Comedy, Romance
Released: November 18, 1977
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Bert Convy, Brian Dennehy, Burt Reynolds, Carl Weathers, Jill Clayburgh

1977

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United Artists | Release Date: November 18, 1977 | R

Starring: Bert Convy, Brian Dennehy, Burt Reynolds, Carl Weathers, Jill Clayburgh, Kris Kristofferson, Lotte Lenya, Richard Masur, Robert Preston, Roger E. Mosley

Summary: A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

Director: Michael Ritchie

Genre(s): Sport, Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 108 min

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Though not as sharp or as unusual as Ritchie's earlier Smile, this is still a delightful, gentle satire on the American ideal of winning, which also takes broad but often hilarious swipes at fashionable health fads. Read full review

Richard Schickel

Semi-Tough may or may not turn out to be the year's best comedy—there's Annie Hall to remember and Mel Brooks yet to be heard from—but it is without a doubt the year's most socially useful film. Read full review

Vincent Canby

A funny film that is as much satire as parody, as much about our time as it is about some of our more bizarre culture heroes. Read full review

Gary Arnold

Well supplied with both raunchy humor and star appeal, particularly in the person of Burt Reynolds, the film seems certain to become a crowd-pleaser. Read full review

David Ansen

With such a broad satirical target, it's a shame that Ritchie's aim goes awry. Because Semi-Tough covers fresh territory, you keep rooting for it to connect. [28 Nov 1977, p.98]

Robert Martin

Although Ritchie has blown Semi-Tough as a film, many individual moments are very funny and worthy of praise. [18 Nov 1977]

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Semi-Tough begins as a bawdy and lively romantic comedy about slap happy pro football players, then slows down to a too-inside putdown of contemporary self-help programs. Read full review

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