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- 1977
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 48 m
- 1977
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 48 m
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.
Directed By: Michael Ritchie
Written By: Dan Jenkins, Walter Bernstein, Ring Lardner Jr.
- 1977
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 48 m
- 1977
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 48 m
Semi-Tough
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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.
Directed By: Michael Ritchie
Written By: Dan Jenkins, Walter Bernstein, Ring Lardner Jr.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
68
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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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.
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.
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.
Semi-Tough is periodically funny and frequently on target in its satire, and it boasts a strong performance from Reynolds.
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]
Although Ritchie has blown Semi-Tough as a film, many individual moments are very funny and worthy of praise. [18 Nov 1977]
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.
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