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Against All Odds

1984 · Movie · 128 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer63%as of 2026-07-29
  • Metacritic42/100as of 2024-11-22

What it is

Against All Odds is a 1984 American neo noir romantic thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods alongside Jane Greer, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. The film is an adaptation of the 1946 novel Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring. The novel was previously adapted as Out of the Past (1947), a film in which Greer played the femme fatale.

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Genres
Romance / Crime / Thriller / Action / Drama
Original language
English

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