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The Best of Times is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Roger Spottiswoode released in USA on 31 january 1986 with Robin Williams
The Best of Times (1986)
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Add to a movie listThe Best of Times is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and written by Ron Shelton. It stars Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as two friends attempting to relive a high school football game.
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Jack Dundee (Williams) is a banker obsessed with what he considers the most shameful moment in his life: dropping a perfectly thrown pass in the final seconds of the 1972 high school football game between Taft and their arch rivals, Bakersfield, which ended in a scoreless tie.Actors
Robin Williams
(Jack Dundee)
Kurt Russell
(Reno Hightower)
Pamela Reed
(Gigi Hightower)
Holly Palance
(Elly Dundee)
Donald Moffat
(Herbert ("The Colonel"))
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