The Main Event (1979)

Synopsis: A perfume magnate (Barbra Streisand), with plenty of chutzpah, falls victim to an embezzling employee who takes her for everything she owns. Well, almost everything.... There is one $60,000... A perfume magnate (Barbra Streisand), with plenty of chutzpah, falls victim to an embezzling employee who takes her for everything she owns. Well, almost everything.... There is one $60,000 investment that still belongs to her -- a washed up prizefighter (Ryan O'Neal) with a sore paw, whose talents had been purchased as a tax write-off. Seeing him as her only chance to recoup some of her former wealth, she decides to manage the mild-mannered boxer's career herself. Can she stimulate a return to championship form? [More]

Starring: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Patti D'Arbanville, Paul Sand

Starring: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Patti D'Arbanville, Paul Sand, Richard Lawson, James Gregory, Whitman Mayo, Richard Altman, Seth Banks

Director: Howard Zieff

Director: Howard Zieff
Screenwriter: Gail Parent, Andrew Smith
Producer: Jon Peters, Barbra Streisand

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