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The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Every dream deserves a fighting chance. Rated R for language throughout, drug content, some violence and sexuality. Did you know Edit. Trivia Mark Wahlberg waived his own salary, and took no upfront fee for this film.
Goofs Micky Ward is introduced before a fight as having 20 KOs. He defeats an opponent by KO, and then is introduced for a later fight as having only 20 KOs instead of Quotes Dickie Eklund : Are you like me? User reviews Review.
Top review. Great direction and performances make this an excellent film. Do we have a lot of sport films where the underdog ends up winning and overcoming many obstacles along the way until the end?
Roll credits. Everybody lived happily ever after, right? When he and Eklund first saw The Fighter at a private screening, Eklund hated it, says Ward, complaining that, "it made me look like a million bucks and him look like a two-dollar bill.
He didn't like it seeing all the drugs stuff, it brought him back to that time. But then he saw it again at the premiere, and he saw people clapping and crying and laughing and he felt proud. All his mistakes weren't for nothing. Mother and sisters have been less consolable, apparently, and the movie's family truce was only temporary.
Some of them don't talk to her at all. Some of them I talk to, and a couple of them I don't. I was loyal to my family, but obviously I got a wife and a daughter I got to take care of now. Ward's career continued beyond the frame of the movie. In his next fight, five months later, he lost his title and never regained it. He did, however, go on to box in some legendary fights, including a famous trilogy with Canadian Arturo Gatti.
These round slug-outs are what really sealed Ward's boxing reputation: evenly matched, both boxers refused to give in, and took injuries so punishing they ended up in hospital. Ring magazine nominated Ward's matches "Fight of the Year" three years running. Had The Fighter been a "proper" boxing movie it would have focused on this era. Ward doesn't mind, though. As far as he's concerned, The Fighter hasn't changed his life at all. He was already a local hero, eulogised in songs, books and video games.
He still runs a gym and trains young boxers in Lowell, as does his brother Dicky, who's now clean. He also runs an outdoor hockey rink and works as a truck driver for local movie productions such as Ben Affleck's The Town and Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying a Gervais cameo in The Fighter would have been truly surreal but Ward never met him.
As for boxing movies, despite his own fabled resilience in the ring, Ward finds Rocky a little far-fetched. But his favourite boxing movie turns out to be The Champ — Jon Voight's sentimental father-son weepie. You could say The Fighter weaves together similar strands of family and pugilistic conflict, but perhaps its success is equally down to timing.
The Lowell of Ward's youth was already in terminal, post-industrial decline, like much of the present-day US. The Fighter's themes of poverty, family, determination and redemption are clearly what American audiences want to see right now, which makes Ward as close as you can get to a real-life working-class hero — even if that real life needed a little tweaking to fit the formula.
When Micky gets a chance to train seriously in Vegas, Charlene more or less forces him to take it. When Dicky and Alice follow him out there, it's showdown time, and Charlene threatens to leave.
But the movie is imprecise about how this plays out, and they're all at ringside at the end. The weakness of the film is the weakness of the leading role. That's not a criticism of Mark Wahlberg, who has a quite capable range, but of how he and Russell see the character. Micky comes across as a proud, not very bright, very determined man who has apparently never given his family much constructive thought.
His love for Charlene is real, but he never quite realizes he really must choose between her vision and his mother's. His character remains strangely unfocused.
That's not the case with Dicky, Alice and Charlene, and those characters are where the life is. She's one of those women, you know the type, who likes the way she looks posing with a freshly lit cigarette.
Because we aren't deeply invested in Micky, we don't care as much as we should, and the film ends on a note that should be triumph but feels more like simple conclusion. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Rated R for language throughout, drug content, some violence and sexuality. Amy Adams as Charlene.
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