Russell Crowe’s $108 Million Sports Masterpiece Is Coming to Streaming Soon

Russell Crowe's $108 Million Sports Masterpiece Is Coming to Streaming Soon




It's an oft quoted line that the best sports movies, and particularly boxing movies, are the ones that aren't actually about the sport itself. Obviously, we're thrilled when we watch the fighting scenes, the training montages, the highs and the lows and the inevitable triumph, but ultimately, they only really work if we buy into the characters. This is a key example of that particular trope, and it understands it completely. It's a sports drama, sure, but it's also a Depression-era survival story about a man trying to keep his family together when, quite literally, all hope appears to be lost.


It's an oft quoted line that the best sports movies, and particularly boxing movies, are the ones that aren't actually about the sport itself. Obviously, we're thrilled when we watch the fighting scenes, the training montages, the highs and the lows and the inevitable triumph, but ultimately, they only really work if we buy into the characters. This is a key example of that particular trope, and it understands it completely. It's a sports drama, sure, but it's also a Depression-era survival story about a man trying to keep his family together when, quite literally, all hope appears to be lost.

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