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Body Slam

Body Slam

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 21, 1986

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Comedy, Music

User Score

50%

Original Title

Body Slam

Production Companies

Musifilm Productions, Hemdale Film Corporation

Director

Hal Needham

Description

M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.