The Main Event

The Main Event

1979 · 112 min · EN · PG · 5.0 (39 votes)
Dir. Howard Zieff · Starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Whitman Mayo, Patti D'Arbanville, Chu Chu Malave · Music Michael Melvoin

A Glove Story

ComedyRomance

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.

VIBE

A colorful, high-energy romp where a perfume mogul turns a driving instructor into a boxer. It's a feel-good underdog story with plenty of laughs and a surprisingly sweet romance at its core.

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