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- 1971
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 28 m
- 1971
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 28 m
Summary A smart-mouthed junkie and loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
Directed By: Ivan Passer
Written By: David Scott Milton, Ivan Passer
- 1971
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 28 m
- 1971
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 28 m
Born to Win
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Summary A smart-mouthed junkie and loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
Directed By: Ivan Passer
Written By: David Scott Milton, Ivan Passer
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Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
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Ivan Passer directs with the kind of objective integrity that's rare today, but the script doesn't jell. [14 July 1989, p.3D]
Born to Win is a good-bad movie that doesn't always work but has some really brilliant scenes.
Too theatrically phony and too predictably conventional, and the comedy — though in a few cases genuinely funny — is too mechanical for its function.
The script is full of inconsistencies, and the humor is strictly of the New York nebbish school, but it's well worth checking out.
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Production Company
Theater Guild,
Segal-Tokofsky Productions,
Scraping Bottom Company,
Edward Spector Productions
Release Date Dec 1, 1971
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating R
Tagline Their story is written on his arm. If they can get a grip on each other, maybe they can turn their lives around.
