Short Fuse
A suspended boxer runs into all sorts of trouble while trying to go to Las Vegas for his comeback match.
A suspended boxer runs into all sorts of trouble while trying to go to Las Vegas for his comeback match.
Demetrius Navarro
Shane
Page Moss
Ty Granderson Jones
Big Paul
Douglas Tait
Little Paul
Ingrid Sonray
Lisa
Emilio Rivera
Camacho
Joseph D. Reitman
Sky
Joseph Aguilar
Stefan
Elizabeth DeCicco
Venus
A suspended boxer runs into all sorts of trouble while trying to go to Las Vegas for his comeback match.
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.
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.
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.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
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.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
The story of two men, a veteran boxer who is down and out, and a young man who is just starting his life and boxing career. Their fighting careers cross paths as their lives and fortunes head in opposite directions. Director John Huston tells their stories with a level, unsentimental honesty and makes it into one of his best films.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.