The Main Event (1979 film)

The Main Event is a 1979 comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan ONeal, written by Gail Parent and directed by Howard Zieff.

Hillary Kramer Streisand, 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 Eddie Kid Natural Scanlon Ryan ONeal 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.Eventually, Hillary wears Eddie down and she gets funding mainly from friends, associates, and colleagues for his first fights, all of which go awry, either through Hillarys lack of knowledge about boxing or Eddies outofshape condition and general fear of being hit. All the while, Hillary and Eddie continue sparring on their own, thanks to their different personalities. But, as time and fights go on, they develop an increasingly personal relationship, which ultimately leads them to have to decide what they really want. ........

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