Opposite Corners
"Life's toughest opponents are not met in the ring."
A rising boxing star faces success while trying to cope with his parents.
"Life's toughest opponents are not met in the ring."
A rising boxing star faces success while trying to cope with his parents.
Billy Warlock
Bryant Donatello
Cathy Moriarty
Kathy Donatello
Tony Denison
Augie Donatello
Ray Mancini
Chick
Jay Acovone
Puggy
Robert Miano
Carmine
Raymond O'Connor
Mickey
Kenny Morrison
Larry
Frankie Valli
Sal
A rising boxing star faces success while trying to cope with his parents.
When a battered boxer past his prime finds his dreams and his relationships on the ropes, he falls back in with a dangerous crowd and has to take the biggest swing of his life to reclaim his hope and his family.
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
A boxer suffers a serious head injury during a fight, and must deal with the consequences.
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.