NORTH DALLAS FORTY (1979)

Cast

Plot

Some have said that this is the best film about football ever made and they may be right but at the centre of the film is a solid performance by Nolte. We see cold hearted management and players that must endure incredible amounts of pain to be able to play. Phillip Elliott is a veteran wide receiver who has gone through many operations and walks with a limp and must take assorted pain killers not to play football but to just be able to get through the day. His only friend is quarterback Seth Maxwell and together they smoke dope and drink beer and that's during the training for a game! Elliott has to sit on the bench and only makes rare appearances in games and this makes him angry but he puts up with the cold hearted rantings of Coach Strothers while waiting to play. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.