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Any Which Way You Can (1980)

Any Which Way You Can poster
Directed by
Buddy Van Horn
Genre
comedy film, action film, buddy film, boxing film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 56m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 372 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A retired bare-knuckle boxer is pulled back into fighting by the mafia who want him to face a champion. He also has to deal with a neo-Nazi biker gang seeking revenge.

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What happens

Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Buddy Van Horn and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, and Ruth Gordon in supporting roles. The film is the sequel to the 1978 hit comedy Every Which Way but Loose. The cast of the previous film return as Philo Beddoe (Eastwood) reluctantly comes out of retirement from underground bare-knuckle boxing to take on a champion hired by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to ensure the fight takes place, while the neo-Nazi biker gang Philo humiliated in the previous film also comes back for revenge. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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