North Dallas Forty
“Wait till you see the weird part.”
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Studio
Frank Yablans Presentations
Language
en
Status
Released
How North Dallas Forty performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$26.1M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Phillip Elliott
Nick Nolte
Phillip Elliott
Seth Maxwell
Mac Davis
Seth Maxwell
Coach Johnson
Charles Durning
Coach Johnson
Charlotte Caulder
Dayle Haddon
Charlotte Caulder
Jo Bob Priddy
Bo Svenson
Jo Bob Priddy
O. W. Shaddock
John Matuszak
O. W. Shaddock
Conrad Hunter
Steve Forrest
Conrad Hunter
B. A. Strothers
G.D. Spradlin
B. A. Strothers
Emmett Hunter
Dabney Coleman
Emmett Hunter
Joanne Rodney
Savannah Smith Boucher
Joanne Rodney
Eddie Rand
Marshall Colt
Eddie Rand
Eddie Rand
Guich Koock
Eddie Rand
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