7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
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
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
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
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film receives a Left-Leaning rating due to its central critique of corporate exploitation and dehumanization within professional sports, portraying players as disposable assets in a profit-driven system, which aligns with progressive values concerning labor and institutional power.
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
User Ratings
6.9
6.7
Critic Ratings
8.6
8.0
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