Apple TVNorth Dallas Forty (1979)
Bias Rating
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Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.5
Overview
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Starring Cast
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Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
Overview
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVGoogle PlayDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's central thesis critiques the dehumanizing and exploitative nature of professional sports, portraying players as disposable commodities within a profit-driven system, which aligns with progressive concerns regarding corporate power and worker rights.
The film features a traditional cast predominantly composed of white males, consistent with its 1970s professional football setting, without explicit DEI-driven casting choices. Its narrative focuses on critiquing the exploitative aspects of the sports industry rather than traditional identities or explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
North Dallas Forty does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The film's narrative is entirely centered on the experiences of heterosexual male athletes within the professional football world of the late 1970s, focusing on their struggles and excesses.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "North Dallas Forty" is a direct adaptation of Peter Gent's novel. All major and supporting characters maintain the same gender as established in the source material, with no instances of a character canonically or historically established as one gender being portrayed as another.
The film "North Dallas Forty" is an adaptation of a novel, not a biopic or a reboot of legacy characters. There is no evidence that any character canonically established as one race in the source material was portrayed as a different race in the 1979 film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.9
6.7
Critic Ratings
8.6
8.0
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