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Mar 25, 1983 · 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.
- (924)
- Action, Drama, Romance
- Richard Fleischer
- 1983-03-25
A down-on-his-luck country & western singer from Fort Worth enters a "toughman" competition to help pay his family's bills. Surprisingly, he does well against the other fighters and wins enough matches to qualify for a national championship. An unexpected break forces him to choose between his passion for his music career and his new-found success.
- $2,433,722
- Michael Lloyd, Steve Wax
- $5 million
- March 25, 1983
Find out who directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the 1983 movie Tough Enough, a comedy about a fight promoter and his employees. See the full cast and crew credits, including agents, stunt coordinators, composers, and more.
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. A promoter comes to town, rents a hall and says he wants to find the toughest man in town. Every macho drunk for miles around signs up. On the appointed night, the tough guys climb into the ring and hammer each other, and the winner gets a ...
Tough Enough. 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 ...
- (11)
- Richard Fleischer
- PG
- Dennis Quaid
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Synopsis. At Torreyson's nightclub in Fort Worth, Texas, fight promoters James Neese (Warren Oates) and Tony Fallon (Bruce McGill) judge a wet T-shirt contest. They select three young women to serve as "ring girls" at the following night's "Toughman" event, in which amateur boxers compete for a $5,000 prize. Afterward, country singer Art Long ...
Richard Fleischer. Director. John Leone. Writer. An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and ...
