Coup de Grâce
Sports films
Biographical films
Dickie e Micky Ward sono due fratelli entrambi pugili. Vivono a Lowell, una cittadina di provincia del Massachusetts in cui Dickie, il maggiore, è divenuto una sorta di leggenda vivente per aver mandato al tappeto Sugar Ray Leonard. Ora però Dickie fuma crack ed è sempre meno lucido ma non vuole smettere di essere l'allenatore del fratello. Il quale è messo sotto pressione anche dall'ambiente familiare. La madre Alice pretende di essere il suo manager, spalleggiata dalla tribù di sorelle del ragazzo. Micky viene mandato allo sbaraglio in un incontro e da lì cresce pian piano il desiderio di affrancarsi da una famiglia davvero troppo pesante da sopportare. L'incontro con la barista Charlene offre un ulteriore impulso a questa separazione. Ma non sarà un percorso facile e, forse, non sarà neanche quello giusto. (Mymovies).
When boxer "Irish" Micky Ward tries to compete for a championship in the ring, he finds himself struggling to balance his relationships with his girlfriend, manager, and the brother who helped train him to fight.
Drama
The fighter
Fighter (Motion picture : 2010)
DVDs for the hearing impaired
Micky Ward is a struggling boxer long overshadowed by his older brother and trainer, Dicky, a local legend battling his own demons. Their explosive relationship threatens to take them both down. However, the bond of blood may be their only chance to redeem their pasts and, at last, give their hard-luck town what it's been waiting for: pride. Special features include: commentary, and a featurette.
Micky Ward is a struggling boxer long overshadowed by his older brother and trainer, Dicky, a local legend battling his own demons. Their explosive relationship threatens to take them both down. However, the bond of blood may be their only chance to redeem their pasts, and, at last, give their hard-luck town what it's been waiting for: pride.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Micky Ward is a struggling boxer long overshadowed by his older brother and trainer, Dicky, a local legend battling his own demons. Their explosive relationship threatens to take them both down. However, the bond of blood may be their only chance to redeem their pasts and, at last, give their hard-luck town what it's been waiting for-- pride.
Fighter (Motion picture.)
Bokser Micky Ward, afkomstig uit een achterstandswijk in Lowell, Massachusetts, traint onder leiding van zijn oudere broer Dicky voor het kampioenschap.
Films for the hearing impaired
Micky Ward is a struggling boxer long overshadowed by his older brother and trainer, Dicky, a local legend battling his own demons. Their explosive relationship threatens to take them both down. However, the bond of blood may be their only chance to redeem their pasts and, at last, give their hard-luck town what it's been waiting for: pride. Special features include commentary and a featurette.
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that Russell, a chubby Wilderness Explorer Scout has stowed away. In the tropical jungle, Carl and Russell find more than they bargained for. Charles Muntz is a crazed explorer whose newsreels once inspired Carl and Ellie; Kevin is an exotic bird with a weakness for chocolate; and Dug who is an endearingly golden retriever fitted with a voice box. More importantly, Carl and Russell discover they need each other.
Based on a true story, two brothers, against all the odds come together to train for a historic title bout that has the power to reunite their fractured family and give their hard-luck town what it's been waiting for: pride.
A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.
Cine biográfico
Micky Ward "El Irlandés" y su hermanastro Dicky Eklund, tuvieron que enfrentarse como contrincantes antes de unirse como hermanos en una dura pelea para ganar un importante campeonato y fortalecer sus lazos familiares
Fighter
The fighter (David O. Russell)
Déchéance et rédemption de deux frères sur le ring... Filmé de manière viscérale et crue, ce film qui dépeint l'univers de la boxe, dresse aussi le portrait bouleversant d'une famille névrosée...
Drama cinematográfico
Boxing films
Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice guy, long regarded as little more than a stepping-stone for rising fighters, but with undeniable potential. Between his controlling mom Alice, who manages his career, his crack head trainer brother, and a Greek chorus of seven sisters, Micky doesn't have a chance. Until his tough-chick bartender girlfriend Charlene gives him the confidence and support to consider a different course. But his success comes at a cost--as he must leave his family behind in the process.
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 who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Feature films
Fighter (videorecording), The
The Fighter
Fiction films
Feature film from the USA. Dramatisation of the career of American boxer Micky Ward, aka 'Irish'.
"Micky Ward ... is a struggling boxer long overshadowed by his older brother and trainer, Dicky ..., a local legend battling his own demons. Their explosive relationship threatens to take them both down. However, the bond of blood may be their only chance to redeem their pasts and, at last, give their hard-luck town what it's been waiting for, pride"--Container. Based on a true story.
Le cour de grâce
THE FIGHTER
Inspired by an incredible true story The fighter is a gritty, affectionately humorous, yet stirring comeback tale of an unlikely boxing hero, "Irish" Micky Ward and his half-brother Dicky Eklundinner, who must come apart as opponents before coming together as brothers. Dicky was the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts for going toe-to-toe with champ Sugar Ray Leonard, but has come on hard times and is a crack addict. Micky is now the family's fighter, with his fledgling career going nowhere under the management of his mother Alice. When Micky's latest mismatched fight nearly kills him, he is persuaded by iron-willed new girlfriend, Charlene, to do the unthinkable: split with the family, pursue his own interests and train without his troubled brother. Then Micky gets the shot of a lifetime at a title fight, and it soon becomes clear that it will take not only Charlene and his new trainer but also his brother and the whole family to get him there.
"Biografischer Spielfilm über den Boxer Micky Ward, dessen Karriere in einer legendären "Runde des Jahrhunderts" gipfelte, bei der er und sein Gegner selbstquälerisches Standvermögen bewiesen. Er beleuchtet vor allem die Herkunft des Boxers aus einem proletarischen Milieu und das schwierige Verhältnis zu dessen Familie als Motivation für den kämpferischen Ehrgeiz. Dank des überzeugenden, zurückhaltend agierenden Hauptdarstellers ein eindrucksvolles Porträt, das sich mit agiler Handkamera und authentischen Schauplätzen um Realitätsnähe bemüht." [film-dienst.de].
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 45º 2011
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 15º 2010
National Society of Film Critics Awards 46º 2011 Nueva York
Golden Globes 68º 2011 Beverly Hills, California
Academy Awards 84º 2011 Los Ángeles, California
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 11º 2010
Screen Actors Guild Awards 17º 2011 Los Ángeles (Estados Unidos)
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards 19º 2010
Roadshow Entertainment (Firm : Australia)
Critics' Choise Awards 24º 2011 Los Ángeles, California
Austin Film Critics Award 5º 2010 Austin, Texas
Palm Springs International Film Festival 22º 2011
Man-woman relationships Massachusetts Lowell Drama.
Mothers and sons Massachusetts Lowell Drama.
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2010
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2011
Satellite Awards 14º 2010 Los Ángeles, California
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 30º 2010
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards 9º 2010