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- "Tough Enough" is a nice little movie about the Tough Guy contests. It's sneaking into town during the media barrage for " Return of the Jedi," and it's likely nobody will even hear about it, but it's a goofy entertainment that has some good moments and a couple of interesting characters.
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A promoter comes to town, rents a hall and says he wants to find the toughest man in town. Every macho drunk for miles around signs up. On the appointed night, the tough guys climb into the ring and hammer each other, and the winner gets a cash prize and a chance to move on to the semifinals.
Mar 25, 1983 · Tough Enough: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Dennis Quaid, Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Pam Grier. A C and W singer has a family to support so he boxes at a TOUGHMAN amateur boxing contest, hoping to win $5000 and maybe go on to the nationals and sing on national TV.
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- Action, Drama, Romance
- Richard Fleischer
- 1983-03-25
Dennis Quaid is perfectly cast in this small, non-offensive drama, as a guy with a dream, a mean streak and a guitar who uses his status as a fighter to get a recording contract. He is helped by Stan Shaw and Pam Grier and his wife and makes it to Detroit for the National Tough Man competition.
Singing honky-tonk tunes doesn't pay the family bills for Art Long (Dennis Quaid), so he decides to go where the money is: fighting. After winning his first bouts in a local Toughman contest, Art...
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- Richard Fleischer
- PG
- Dennis Quaid
An aspiring Texas country singer (Dennis Quaid - doing his own crooning) ends up in a tough man contest (run by Warren Oates & Bruce McGill) in this southern fried ROCKY-type flick directed by genre stalwart Richard Fleischer (the year before he did CONAN THE DESTROYER & RED SONJA).
- Richard Fleischer
- Brian Saur
Tough Enough is a 1983 American romantic drama sports film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Dennis Quaid, Pam Grier, Warren Oates (in his final film appearance) and Stan Shaw.
Directed by Richard Fleischer. They are big! They are bad! But are they tough enough to beat the Country Western Warrior? An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a “Tough Man” amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills.
