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North Dallas Forty (1979)

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North Dallas Forty (1979)

Overview

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low

Viewer Rating
7.5

Overview

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Google Play logoGoogle Play
Fandango
Prime Video logoPrime Video
Powered byJustWatch

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film's central thesis critiques the corporate exploitation and dehumanization of professional athletes by profit-driven management, aligning with left-leaning concerns about power imbalances and labor. While the solution is individualistic, the problem framed is distinctly progressive.

The film features a traditional cast predominantly composed of white males, consistent with its 1970s professional football setting, without explicit DEI-driven casting choices. Its narrative focuses on critiquing the exploitative aspects of the sports industry rather than traditional identities or explicit DEI themes.

Secondary

North Dallas Forty does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The film's narrative is entirely centered on the experiences of heterosexual male athletes within the professional football world of the late 1970s, focusing on their struggles and excesses.

North Dallas Forty is a sports drama centered on professional football players and the culture surrounding the sport. The narrative does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters, themes, or plotlines, resulting in no portrayal of transsexual identity within the film's content.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film "North Dallas Forty" is a direct adaptation of Peter Gent's novel. All major and supporting characters maintain the same gender as established in the source material, with no instances of a character canonically or historically established as one gender being portrayed as another.

The film "North Dallas Forty" is an adaptation of a novel, not a biopic or a reboot of legacy characters. There is no evidence that any character canonically established as one race in the source material was portrayed as a different race in the 1979 film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.5

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.9
The Movie Database logo
6.6

Critic Ratings

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8.5
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8.0

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