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Submit Your ReviewBarbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal attempt to recapture the screwball spark of What's Up, Doc? in the labored farce The Main Event. Streisand plays Hillary Kramer, a bankrupt perfume executive who discovers that one of her tax write-offs from more prosperous times was the ownership of prizefighter Kid ...more
MPAA Rating: PG | Year: 1979 | Running Time: 112 minutes
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As screen teams go, Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal are not up there with Hepburn and Tracy or Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, but they made a surprisingly winning couple in What's Up Doc? The follow-up, The Main Event, doesn't match the original, but it's enjoyable, and the stars are still watchable. The main problem, of course, is the script. The plot is weak and predictable, and the humor is forced. For example, Streisand says, "I said celebrate, not fornicate!" O'Neal replies, "I love a woman ...more
- Barbra Streisand - Hillary Kramer
- Ryan O'Neal - Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon
- Paul Sand - David
- Patti D'Arbanville - Donna
- Whitman Mayo - Percy
- Rory Calhoun - Fighter in Kid's Camp
- Shay Duffin - Fight Announcer
- Art Evans - Fighter
- Murphy Dunne - Mario
- Ron Henriques - Fighter
- Dave Ketchum - Photographer
- Len Lesser - Trainer at Kid's Camp
- Eddie Lopez
- Robert Nadder - Nose - Dean
- Howard Zieff - Director
- Zvi Howard Rosenman - Executive Producer
- Renee Missel - Executive Producer
- Barbra Streisand - Producer
- Jon Peters - Producer
- Andrew Smith - Screenwriter
- Gail Parent - Screenwriter
- Jeff Werner - Associate Producer
- Karen Rea - Casting
- Dianne Crittenden - Casting
- Ruth Myers - Costume Designer
- Gary Daigler - First Assistant Director
- Edward Warschilka - Editor
- Michael Melvoin - Composer (Music Score)
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