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The Main Event(Movie, 1979)

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| 1h 52min | Genres: Comedy, Romance / Love
The Main EventRating: 2.5/5 (with 2020 votes)
The Main Event is a 1979 American sports romantic comedy film starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, written by Gail Parent, directed by Howard Zieff, and produced by Jon Peters and Streisand. The film received negative reviews from critics, but was among the top 20 highest grossing films of the year at the box office. It was also the impetus for Streisand's first foray into disco singing the Golden Globe-nominated theme song written by Paul Jabara and Bruce Roberts. ()
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Duration: 1h 49min
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About The Main Event

Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, Eddie Scanlon, who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: Czech (CS), English (EN)
Translated into 15 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR)
Status: Released
Release date US: 06/22/1979
Director: Howard Zieff
Screenwriter: Gail Parent
Film Editor: Edward Warschilka
Director of Photography: Mario Tosi
Composer: Mike Melvoin
Performer: Barbra Streisand
Revenue: 44,800,000 USD

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Other movies with this title: The Main Event (US, 1927), The Main Event (US, 1938), The Main Event (AU, 1998), The Main Event (US, 2020)

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