The read
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes63%
Metacritic55/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
144 audience votes
Key crew
- Harold BeckerDirector
- Darryl PonicsanScreenplay
- Edgar FroeseOriginal Music Composer
- Christopher FrankeOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Matthew ModineLouden Swain
- Linda FiorentinoCarla
- Ronny CoxLarry Swain
- Daphne ZunigaMargie Epstein
- Charles HallahanThe Coach
- Michael SchoefflingKuch
- Harold SylvesterGene Tanneran
- J.C. QuinnElmo
- MadonnaSinger
- Forest WhitakerBalldozer
- Gary KasperOtto
- R.H. ThomsonKevin
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Themes
high schoolsportswrestlingwrestlerpizzacoachcoming of agelovebriefwrestling teamhomoeroticmelodramatic