40 hommes à abattre

Original title: North Dallas Forty

1979
R
1h 59m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

6.2K

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Satire Comedy Drama Sport

A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family are bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family are bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family are bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

6.2K

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
This movie was made and released about six years after its source semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Peter Gent was published in 1973. The name of the football team in the movie is the North Dallas Bulls, loosely based on the real-life NFL Dallas Cowboys, for whom Gent played between 1964 and 1968.

Goofs
When Phil is walking into Conrad Hunter's office building which is supposedly in Dallas, the Westin Bonaventure Hotel is plainly visible. This hotel is in Los Angeles and is an iconic building of five glass cylindrical towers.

Quotes
O. W. Shaddock: Every time I call it a game, you call it a business, and every time I call it business, you call it a game.

Connections
Featured in Sneak Previews: More American Graffiti, The Amityville Horror, The Muppet Movie, The Wanderers, North Dallas Forty (1979)

Soundtracks
Cuba
Performed by The Gibson Brothers
Written by Jean Kluger & Daniel Vangarde
courtesy of Island Records

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Featured review

7/10

Back to the future

I hadn't seen ND40 since it first opened, but I always remembered it as my favorite football movie. Since my friends are sick of me comparing every football movie to it, I decided to make sure I was still right after 20 years. The movie holds up remarkably over the years. Sure, lots has changed--making the movie a humorous period statement. The bad hair, the bad polyester clothes, and cigarettes everywhere. The coach actually has to tell the team to put out their cigarettes five minutes before the big game!

On substance, the movie is still right on the mark. The addiction to pain killers, the crippling effect of the game, and the effect the game has on the players personal lives all ring true today. Although we try to unsuccessfully bury some of those problems today, they sneak out anyway in Bret Favre's pain killers or OJ Simpson's arthritis.

One problem: if Nolte really is the best receiver on the team with the best hands in the league, why isn't he playing? I can hypothesize reasons, but the writer/director could have made the reasons more obvious.

9 stars out of 10