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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Romance /
Sport
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Release:
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Director:
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Charles S. Dutton
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Actors:
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Meg Ryan,
Dean McDermott,
Skye McCole Bartusiak,
Sean Bell,
Gene Mack,
Omar Epps,
Charles S. Dutton,
Tony Shalhoub,
Tim Daly,
Joseph Cortese,
Kerry Washington,
Juan Carlos Hernández,
Holt McCallany,
Tory Kittles,
Beau Starr
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Duration:
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107 min.
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Rating:
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(5.2/10)78
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Plot Summary:
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A Jewish baggage from Detroit who became a boxing supervisor, guiding diverse major careers. This film focuses on her relationship with one boxer (Epps), who's reportedly a composite of a few including Toney, McKart and Hearns. Kallen eventually socialistic her husband of 30 years, and moved to Los Angeles, becoming the commissioner of the Cosmopolitan Female Boxers Association...
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Worth a watch
Meg Ryan very believable as a p.a. turned boxing manager who from an early age followed and loved boxing thanks to her father and uncle who were both in the business.
Omar Epps also puts up a very creditable performance as an ex-drug dealer turned championship contender.
There are plenty of other films out there that you may turn off after half an hour or persevere until the end and wish that you had. This is NOT one of them!
Worth a watch and is enjoyable whether you like boxing or not.
Against the Ropes
Meg Ryan has the eye of the tiger in this story about a ball-busting female boxing promoter
As groggily hesitant as a punch drunk fighter past his prime, this biopic is loosely based on the real-life story of America's 'First Lady of Boxing', Jackie Kallen, a woman who took the boys on at their own game and became one of the nation's leading boxing promoters.
In post-Erin Brockovich Hollywood such a tale of female empowerment must have seemed like the perfect vehicle for Meg Ryan's attempts to leave her romantic comedy queen image behind. In reality it's a disappointing, flabby exercise in cosy feelgood gender politics, more interested in the action in the ring than Kallen's own grudge match.
Kallen takes on rough-around-the-edges ghet...
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