The read
Audiences rate it 27 points higher than critics do. Most of the 6,965 2010s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when a 450 pound church handyman who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans.
Ratings
IMDb5.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes11%
Metacritic24/100
Audiences rate it 27 points higher than critics do.
68 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael W. WatkinsDirector
- Bear AderholdWriter
- Adam RifkinWriter
- Tom SullivanWriter
Cast
- Mark FeuersteinEddie Sullivan
- Dennis FarinaMemphis Earl
- Melora HardinMary
- Paul WightWalter Krunk
- Wendie MalickSister Francesca
- Will PattonVic Sullivan
- Saul RubinekRabbi
- Rebecca CreskoffTina
- Bobb'e J. ThompsonMad Milton
- Lester SpeightRedrum
- Wayne FerraraPolice Captain
- Lurie PostonTodd
Stills
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Themes
competitionorphanagedebtsport competitionbig heartrivalcatch