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Drama 97 min PG
Rotten Tomatoes100%Metacritic89IMDb
Life is what happens in between rounds.
The story of two men, a veteran boxer who is down and out, and a young man who is just starting his life and boxing career. Their fighting careers cross paths as their lives and fortunes head in opposite directions.
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Contemplative, bleak, character-led and spare.
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“Billy” (Stacy Keech) had been a jobbing boxer for most of his life, but his aged body has caused him to hang up his gloves, leaving him boozing with the permanently sozzled “Oma” (the scene stealing Susan Tyrell) most of the time whilst eking out an existence doing what he can to earn a buck after his career left him penniless. Whilst training at the YMCA, he comes across the enthusiastic young “Ernie” (Jeff Bridges) who is initially only having some fun, but is soon bent on embarking on a career that “Billy” reckons will follow the same trajectory of brief success and then failure that he suffered. Perhaps there is some way that he can use his own experiences to influence his young friend, but all the while “Ernie” is now taking advice from “Ruben” (Nicholas Colasanto) who used to manage the older man, and so is being drip fed promises of success and wealth. When “Billy” tries to intercede, he merely provokes resentment from an aspiring fighter who thinks that his erstwhile friend is envious of his potential. Meantime, girlfriend “Faye” (Candy Clark) is also putting pressure on “Ernie” to get his priorities right and so ambitious but conflicted, this competent pugilist must make
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