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5 days ago · Movie ( 1979) • 45 total actors • 121 minutes. The cast of The Champ includes Jon Voight as Billy, Faye Dunaway as Annie, Ricky Schroder as T.J., Jack Warden as Jackie, and more. The film depicts a story about a washed-up boxer trying to make a comeback while balancing his personal life.
4 days ago · 2.5. Summary. The Champion is a decent sports drama that unfortunately undermines itself with an ill-advised climax. The Champion (2024) isn’t a very good movie, but it’s a well-intentioned and likable one so I’d feel bad making fun of it. The from-the-ashes sports drama playbook is well-worn, and this Spanish Netflix movie does nothing ...
4 days ago · July 12, 2024. The Spanish sports drama film ‘The Champion’ dives into the world of professional soccer through the eyes of a highly sought-after player named Diego, who runs afoul of disciplinary issues that lead to his suspension from on-field activities by his team, Atlético de Madrid. As the champions of La Liga, the top men’s soccer ...
3 days ago · Performance Worth Watching: Rovira holds this movie together with his earnest gravitas and a willingness to transcend a few cliches with a thoughtful, well-considered characterization. Memorable ...
2 days ago · M-G-M 1930–1931: Billy the Kid and The Champ. Filmed just before passage of the Production Code of 1933, Vidor's Billy the Kid is free of the fixed moral dualities that came to typify subsequent Good Guy vs. Bad Guy Westerns in Hollywood.
3 days ago · The Champion, or El Campeon, is a new Spanish sports drama film on Netflix that follows the same old pattern of setting out to tell a grand football story and failing terribly by the end. The plot follows a young Spanish wonderkid, known as Diego, who faces a professional crisis at the moment because of his arrogance and hot-headed temperament.
4 days ago · As the film progresses, Diego and Alex grow closer together and their relationship at the center of this has the usual hallmarks you’d expect. You have the misunderstanding trope, the various highs and lows of their friendship and the emotional climax too. Although on that note, there’s a rather ludicrous scene of one man shouting from the ...
