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Released
1979 · FILM

The Main Event

A Glove Story

Directed by
Runtime
112 min
ComedyRomanceSport

Synopsis

A bankrupt entrepreneur tries to recover some of her financial losses by preparing a washed-up boxer, whom she had previously claimed as a tax write-off, to return to the ring—though the idea is not well received by her protégé.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Edward WarschilkaShot by Mario TosiScored by Michael MelvoinDesigned by Charles Rosen

Box Office

1979 · Box office

Grossed $44.8M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$44.8M

Worldwide gross$44.8M

US & Canada: $42.8M 96% of worldwide · International: $2.0M (4%)

Also known as

  • Was, du willst nicht?de
  • Combate de fondoes
  • Tendre combatfr
  • Ma che sei tutta matta?it

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