Against All Odds (1984 film)

Against All Odds
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Taylor Hackford
Screenplay by	Eric Hughes
Based on	Build My Gallows High 1946 novel by Daniel Mainwaring
Produced by	William S. Gilmore Taylor Hackford
Starring	Rachel Ward Jeff Bridges James Woods Alex Karras Jane Greer Richard Widmark
Cinematography	Donald E. Thorin
Edited by	Fredric Steinkamp William Steinkamp
Music by	Michel Colombier Larry Carlton
Production companies	New Visions Columbia-Delphi Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	March 2, 1984 (1984-03-02)
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]