The Fighter (2010)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
Synopsis:
An aspiring young boxer from Lowell, Mass. is trained by his crack-addicted, has-been brother and managed by their controlling mother, but has to break free of his family's oppressive influence if he is to realize his potential.
Review:
Another of Russell's blue-collar family groups, this is a real-life success story that shows just how perilous a nurturing domestic existence can be. Wahlberg is suitably low-key as the diffident kid brother pressed into the limelight by his charismatic but unreliable sibling (Bale in a typically transformative role), to do for him what he couldn't do for himself. But as often with this director, it is the supporting cast one remembers: the psychotic matriarch and her pack of feral daughters, and the police sergeant-cum-trainer who even plays himself.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
Synopsis:
An aspiring young boxer from Lowell, Mass. is trained by his crack-addicted, has-been brother and managed by their controlling mother, but has to break free of his family's oppressive influence if he is to realize his potential.
Review:
Another of Russell's blue-collar family groups, this is a real-life success story that shows just how perilous a nurturing domestic existence can be. Wahlberg is suitably low-key as the diffident kid brother pressed into the limelight by his charismatic but unreliable sibling (Bale in a typically transformative role), to do for him what he couldn't do for himself. But as often with this director, it is the supporting cast one remembers: the psychotic matriarch and her pack of feral daughters, and the police sergeant-cum-trainer who even plays himself.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
Synopsis:
An aspiring young boxer from Lowell, Mass. is trained by his crack-addicted, has-been brother and managed by their controlling mother, but has to break free of his family's oppressive influence if he is to realize his potential.
Review:
Another of Russell's blue-collar family groups, this is a real-life success story that shows just how perilous a nurturing domestic existence can be. Wahlberg is suitably low-key as the diffident kid brother pressed into the limelight by his charismatic but unreliable sibling (Bale in a typically transformative role), to do for him what he couldn't do for himself. But as often with this director, it is the supporting cast one remembers: the psychotic matriarch and her pack of feral daughters, and the police sergeant-cum-trainer who even plays himself.