Against the Ropes (Widescreen) PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 13, 2004
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Meg Ryan & Omar Epps | |
Performer: | Tony Shalhoub, Charles S. Dutton, Kerry Washington & Joe Cortese | |
Directed by | Charles S. Dutton | |
Edited by | Eric Beason | |
Screenwriting by | Cheryl Edwards | |
Composition by | Michael Kamen | |
Produced by | David Madden & Robert W. Cort | |
Director of Photography: | Jack N. Green | |
Executive Production by | Steven Roffer, Jonathan Pillot & Scarlett Lacey |
Entertainment Reviews:
What could have been a Working Girl hoot gets mired in redundant assertions of Kallen's feistiness.
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Village Voice
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Against the Ropes may not deliver a knock-out, but it does land some pretty good blows.
Christianity Today
Rating: 2/4 --
It's hard to expect anyone to infuse much passion into a "by-the-numbers" boxing movie which telegraphs every punch.
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Princeton Town Topics
Meg Ryan is busily torpedoing any respect she might have accrued
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Times (UK)
Rating: 2.5/4 --
An inoffensively average, formulaic entertainment with a marketing-problematic point of view.
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TheMovieReport.com
Somewhere along the way, I found myself enjoying Against the Ropes, not in spite of my better judgment, but because something in the movie defies the whole notion of better judgment altogether.
Salon.com
This is pulpy, unforgivable stuff, as ungainly as Ryan's walk in her black high heels.
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London Evening Standard
Product Description:
Meg Ryan stars in this fictionalized account of real-life boxing manager Jackie Kallen, the first female to ever make a name for herself in the sport. As the film begins she's just an assistant to the owner of a sleazy sporting arena, but her antagonism toward a mafia-affiliated boxing bigwig (Tony Shalhoub) and her hunch about the innate boxing talent of a young street thug named Luther (Omar Epps) lead her to take up managing. She recruits a retired trainer (Charles S. Dutton, who also directed) to mold Luther into a champ, and starts pushing and climbing through the sport's rampant sexism. The script by Cheryl Edwards is packed with platitudes and great throwaway lines, and to its credit the film doesn't shy away from showing Kallen's less flattering angles. Ryan looks and sounds great, sporting a fun Midwestern accent and a series of sexy outfits as she sashays through the cigar smoke and testosterone, tough-talking her way to victory in argument after argument. Though set in the present, AGAINST THE ROPES has a grungy 1970s feel to it, recalling ROCKY, THE CHAMP, THE MAIN EVENT and other films of the era. The real-life Kallen served as an associate producer.
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