While featured player Paul Giamatti is convincing as a suburbanite attorney who, in struggling to make ends meet, devises an ethically dodgy plan to take on the legal guardianship of a senile elderly client (Burt Young), the key move that put this film on a winning track, came when writer/director Tom McCarthy (“The Station Agent”, “The Visitor”) decided to audition wrestlers that had acting potential. [...]
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Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, this boxing drama, based on the real life story of Micky Ward is now out on DVD [...] Writer/Producer and Sportandcinema.com creator and contributor Randy Williams will be teaching a new course this summer at the renowned USC School of Cinematic Arts bringing his “Sports in Cinema” studies and findings to a new generation of students. [...] Coinciding with the annual tip off into March Madness, ESPN will air a new film next weekend about one of college basketball’s more memorable teams. [...] |
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