Sentences with phrase «rise as a boxer»

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Director David O. Russell not only succeeded in his promise to set his biography about boxer Mickey Ward (played by Mark Wahlberg) apart from other sports memoirs by showcasing the fighter's rise to fame, but by chronicling his struggles with his family as well.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Martin Scorsese Actors: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty Plot: A middle weight boxer, who is emotionally unstable, rises to the top over time, but takes a tumble as his life continues.

That mythology is reborn here as the story of Rogue (Anna Paquin), a teenaged belle who skips town after a first kiss leaves her boyfriend literally breathless, only to find herself a travelling companion to Logan (smouldering star - on - the - rise Hugh Jackman), an underground boxer with adamantium talons that handily protrude from between his fingers whenever danger is lurking nearby.

Rising talent Michael B. Jordan — who played the lead in Coogler's debut, Fruitvale Station — stars as boxer Adonis Johnson, son of Apollo Creed, the heavyweight superstar played by Carl Weathers in the first four Rocky movies.

The Fits is a surreal drama about a young boxer named Toni (Royalty Hightower) who joins a drill dance team as its members are stuck down by a strange condition, and the feature debut of Brooklyn - based director Anna Rose Holmer.

After the World War two Boxers became mope popular and soon rose as a premier companion, guard and show dog.

Besides just playing through a career mode as whomever you want to box as, be they real boxers or someone you made up, the game lets you play through the rise and fall of Andre Bishop.