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Onetime Dallas Cowboy Peter Gent's tell-all novel about the big business of football is the source for Ted Kotcheff's film, which explores the destructive world faced by NFL players both on and off the field.
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North Dallas Forty (1979)
119 min
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.