| Against All Odds | |
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| Directed by | Taylor Hackford |
| Screenplay by | Eric Hughes |
| Based on | Build My Gallows High 1946 novel by Daniel Mainwaring |
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| Cinematography | Donald E. Thorin |
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| Music by | Michel Colombier Larry Carlton |
Production companies | New Visions Columbia-Delphi Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $13 million |
| Box office | $21.7 million (domestic only) |
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. The film's plot is about an aging American football star who is hired by a mobster to find his girlfriend.
The film's soundtrack, nominated for a Grammy Award, featured songs from Big Country, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Stevie Nicks and Genesis breakout stars Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins, who wrote and performed the title song, which was nominated for an Academy Award[1] as Best Original Song[2] and for a Golden Globe Award[3] as Best Original Song, as well as winning the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.[4][5]