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Southpaw

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, Oona Laurence View All


Crew

Antoine Fuqua (Director), Kurt Sutter (Writer) View All

Release: Mar. 24th, 2015
Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes
Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.
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0 Southpaw (2015)
A very good boxing movie. Needs more love....

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Iroquois
I can respect Southpaw to an extent, especially when it comes to Gyllenhaal conveying his character's raw emotion and physicality both inside and outside the ring (even though his tendency to angrily flip over nearby pieces of furniture starts coming across as silly before too long) or Whitaker's tu....
ursaguy
If not Gyllenhaal, the movie was hyped as the boxing movies with realistic boxing scenes.
MovieMeditation
But perhaps, thinking about it, the title of the movie may not be that misleading after all Jake Gyllenhaal may have put on some muscle weight for this movie, but 'Southpaw' is still as weightless as a feather in the wind when he isn't there to create the beats for the tempo of this story.
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