Against All Odds (1984)

Directed by

Taylor Hackford

Genre

drama film, action film, romance film, neo-noir, erotic thriller

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 08m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 244 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging football star is hired by a mobster to track down the mobster's missing girlfriend. He finds her in Mexico and they fall in love, but his loyalty to the mobster and her dangerous past complicate matters.

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What happens

Against All Odds is a 1984 American neo noir romantic thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods alongside Jane Greer, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. The film is an adaptation of the 1946 novel Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring. The novel was previously adapted as Out of the Past (1947), a film in which Greer played the femme fatale. The film's plot is about an aging American football star who is hired by a mobster to find his girlfriend. The film's soundtrack, nominated for a Grammy Award, featured songs from Big Country, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Stevie Nicks and Genesis breakout star, Phil Collins, who wrote and performed the title song, which was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Original Song and for a Golden Globe Award as Best Original Song, as well as winning the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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