Boxing films, in particular, have been some of the most successfully tear -
jerking films of the kind, from Rocky to The Fighter — there isn't quite anything like the thrill of one man with his back to the wall, against all competitive, cultural and social odds.
Helping things
jerk along are Jason Isaacs as a wacky transvestite Scot (who, like all movie gay men, has nothing better to do than tend to wounded whores with hearts
of gold), a little urchin who needs a daddy (Liam Aiken — he also stank in Stepmom, a
film that was directed by Chris Columbus), and Greg Germann (television's «Ally McBeal») as the late -
film reminder
of the
kind of fathead Nelson used to be before he met Sara.