Against All Odds (1984)
Against All Odds (1984)
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Cast & Crew.
Jeff Bridges
Terry Brogan
Rachel Ward
Jessie Wyler
James Woods
Jake Wise
Alex Karras
Hank Sully
Jane Greer
Mrs. Wyler
Richard Widmark
Ben Caxton
Dorian Harewood
Tommy
Swoosie Kurtz
Edie
Saul Rubinek
Steve Kirsch
Pat Corley
Ed Phillips
Bill McKinney
Head Coach
Allen Williams
Bob Soames
Sam Scarber
Assistant Coach
Paul Valentine
Councilman Weinberg
Jonathan Terry
Ryskind
Taylor Hackford
Director / Producer
Eric Hughes
Writer
Daniel Mainwaring
Writer / Novel
Dick Ziker
Stunt Driver
Don S. Walden
Sound Editor
Tom C. McCarthy
Sound Editor
Nancy Klopper
Casting
William Steinkamp
Editor
Michael Kaplan
Costume Design
Dorothy J. Pearl
Makeup Artist
Larry Stensvold
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Garrett Lewis
Set Decoration
Gary Alexander
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Richard Lawrence
Production Design
Curt Sobel
Supervising Music Editor
Fredric Steinkamp
Editor
Marina Pedraza
Hairstylist
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 2, 1984
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 8m
Content RatingR
Filming LocationsMexico · Los Angeles, United States
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Against All Odds is a 1984 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods alongside Jane Greer, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. The film is an adaptation of the 1946 novel Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring. The novel was previously adapted as Out of the Past (1947), a film in which Greer played the femme fatale. The film's plot is about an aging American football star who is hired by a mobster to find his girlfriend.
The film's soundtrack, nominated for a Grammy Award, featured songs from Big Country, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Stevie Nicks and Genesis breakout stars Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins, who wrote and performed the title song, which was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Original Song and for a Golden Globe Award as Best Original Song, as well as winning the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.