Hell I love needles.

Description: A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family is bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.

Cast:
Phillip Elliott: Nick Nolte
Seth Maxwell: Mac Davis
Coach Johnson: Charles Durning
Charlotte Caulder: Dayle Haddon
Jo Bob Priddy: Bo Svenson
O. W. Shaddock: John Matuszak
Conrad Hunter: Steve Forrest
B. A. Strothers: G.D. Spradlin
Emmett Hunter: Dabney Coleman
Joanne Rodney: Savannah Smith Boucher
Art Hartman: Marshall Colt
Eddie Rand: Guich Koock
Mrs. Hartman: Deborah Benson
Stallings: Jim Boeke
Vip: John Bottoms
Doctor: Walter Brooke
Balford: Alan Autry
Tony Douglas: Danny J. Bunz
Ruth: Jane Daly
Conrad: Rad Daly
Monroe: Cliff Frazier
March: Stanley Grover
Locker Boy: Glenn-Michael Jones
Assistant Trainer: Frank O'Neill
Delma Huddle: Tommy Reamon
Coach Waddy: Tom Reese
Partridge: Jeff Severson
Monsignor: Grant Kilpatrick
Pete Peterson: Kevin Cooney
Rindquist: Tony Frank
Alcie Weeks: Doug France
Party Guest: Lauren Jennifer Downing
Bunny Girl: Nanci Roberts
Peggy: Kathleen Mary Larken
Referee: Don J. Berberet
Billy Fitch: Randall Braxtan
Salesman: Kory Olson
Football Player: Ronnie L. Coleman
TV Announcer: Ross Porter
Football player: David Lautrec
Stewardess Twin: Michele Turner Wilson

Written by: Peter Gent, Frank Yablans, Ted Kotcheff

Director: Ted Kotcheff

Production: Frank Yablans Presentations, Regina Associates, Paramount Pictures

Release date: 03 Aug 1979

Box Office: $26,079,312