The story centers on three oddball best friends: Billy Clyde Puckett ( Burt Reynolds) and Marvin "Shake" Tiller ( Kris Kristofferson) are players for a pro team in Miami, and their roommate Barbara Jane Bookman (Jill Clayburgh) is the daughter of the team's owner. The movie is based on a 1972 novel of the same name by longtime sportswriter Dan Jenkins, focusing on the grandeur, ridiculousness and excesses of pro football in an era that was defined by mythical figures like Vince Lombardi and the emergence of the Super Bowl as the crown jewel of American sports.īy the time it was optioned and then green-lit by United Artists, however, American culture had changed a great deal, and so screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Ritchie added a new dimension to the story, turning it into a gentle critique of the fad of spiritual self-improvement that was then enveloping the country.
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