Semi-Tough

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Semi-Tough is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Lotte Lenya, and Bert Convy. Set in the world of American professional football, Semi-Tough follows buddies Billy Clyde Puckett and Marvin 'Shake' Tiller, who have a third roommate, Barbara Jane Bookman. A romance develops between Shake and Barbara Jane when he becomes self-confident after completing a self awareness course called "B.E.A.T.", at which point Billy Clyde slyly makes a play to win her for himself. Based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Dan Jenkins, the screenplay by Ritchie and Walter Bernstein adds a new storyline that includes a satire of the self-help movement and new religions. The film includes a parody of Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training (est), depicted in the film as an organization called "B.E.A.T.". The film received mixed reviews, with some praising its parodies of the est training, Erhard and other...

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