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The Main Event

The Main Event

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 22, 1979

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

Comedy, Romance

User Score

52%

Original Title

The Main Event

Production Companies

Barwood Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, First Artists

Director

Howard Zieff

Revenue

$44,800,000

Description

Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, Eddie Scanlon, who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.