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Hillary Kramer, 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 ...
Main Event, The (1979) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Kid Natural Barbra Streisand is suddenly-broke perfume magnate Hillary, come to an LA gym to find her only remaining asset, the fighter her crooked business manager set up as a tax dodge, Ryan O’Neal as Eddie “Kid Natural” Scanlon, Whitman Mayo his manager, early in The Main Event, 1979.
The Main Event is a film directed by Howard Zieff with Ryan O'Neal, Barbra Streisand, Paul Sand, Whitman Mayo .... Year: 1979. Original title: The Main Event. Synopsis: Hillary Kramer, 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 ...
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 ...
The Main Event is a film directed by Howard Zieff with Ryan O'Neal, Barbra Streisand, Paul Sand, Whitman Mayo .... Year: 1979. Original title: The Main Event. Synopsis: Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America.
Can a penniless perfume magnate (Barbra Streisand) find happiness managing the career of a has-been prizefighter (Ryan O'Neal)? This screwball comedy answers...
- 2 min
- 8.6K
- Warner Bros.
The Main Event is really a non-event, a clunky comedy, poorly directed by Zieff, that is wholly reliant on Streisand's rat-a-tat-patter and Ryan O'Neal's likability for any degree of success. O'Neal, the Ryan Gosling of the 70s, is very good and athletically funny in the early stages as the never-was boxer, bristling at…
