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WWE Tough Enough is an American professional wrestling reality competition series that was produced by WWE, wherein participants undergo professional wrestling training and compete for a contract with WWE.
- Taylor Matheny
Taylor Ann Kendrick (née Matheny; born May 23, 1979) is an...
- Taylor Matheny
Singing honky-tonk tunes doesn't pay the family bills for Art Long (Dennis Quaid), so he decides to go where the money is: fighting. After winning his first bouts in a local Toughman contest, Art...
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- Richard Fleischer
- PG
- Dennis Quaid
Tough Enough may refer to: Tough Enough (1983 film), film starring Dennis Quaid. Tough Enough (2006 film) (Knallhart), German film. WWE Tough Enough, professional wrestling reality TV show.
Tough Enough: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Dennis Quaid, Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Pam Grier. A C and W singer has a family to support so he boxes at a TOUGHMAN amateur boxing contest, hoping to win $5000 and maybe go on to the nationals and sing on national TV.
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- Action, Drama, Romance
- Richard Fleischer
- 1983-03-25
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In the year 1978, Gracie Bowen, a 15-year-old tomboy who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and their former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and neighbor Kyle in the nightly practices her father runs, she is discouraged by everyone except her older brother, Johnny. John...
The premise of the film rests upon the conflicting expectations of two different American generations. As Gracie's parents were most likely both products of what is now referred to as the "Silent Generation" of children born during the Great Depression and World War II, they would have been raised to adhere to traditional gender roles. This would h...
Development and casting
The film is loosely based on life events concerning the Shue family. Former Melrose Place star Andrew Shue, who developed the film, was one of its producers, and acted a supporting role in the film, initially conceived of it as a story about his late brother William, the oldest Shue sibling, who was the captain of the Columbia High School soccer team that won the New Jersey state championship in 1978; he had died in an accident in 1988. As Andrew developed the idea with his brother-in-law Dav...
Reviews
At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper gave Gracie "Two Thumbs up", stating, "You've seen it before, but you'll rarely see it better." Gracie is a New York Times Critics' Pick. Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis described Gracie as "a familiar underdog story told with unusual sensitivity ... Gracie connects the adversity-drama dots – the beat-down, the bounce-back, the last-minute support from an unexpected quarter – with a subtle awareness of the shock waves of bereavement. Balancing the emotional...
Box office
On a budget of $9 million, the limited release film made about $4 million at the box office and over $3 million in rentals.
Awards
1. Heartland Film Festival, Truly Moving Sound Award
The soundtrack contains a number of popular classic rocksongs, many of which are from the year 1978.
Gracie at IMDbGracie at Box Office MojoGracie at AllMovieTough Enough - Full Cast & Crew. 1983. 1 hr 47 mins. Drama. PG. Watchlist. Where to Watch. Dennis Quaid as a country singer who finds more money in boxing. Caroline: Carlene Watkins.
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Tough Enough. 106 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1983. Roger Ebert. May 27, 1983. 3 min read. There were articles in all the papers a few years ago about Tough Man Contests, a brilliant method of exploiting saloon fighters and street-corner brawlers.
