Put a ring on it: Jake Gyllenhaal plays Billy Hope, a former professional boxer looking to get his groove back.
What is it about boxing that makes it so attractive to filmmakers? Is it the simple yet very relatable and powerful metaphor in the basic principle of the sport itself: get into the ring to defeat (or beat the hell out of) your opponents and your personal demons as well?
For as long as there have been movies, there have also been movies about boxing. In addition to classics like Raging Bull, Rocky and The Champ (both the 1931 and 1979 versions), not to mention more recent releases like Million Dollar Baby, The Fighter and Cinderella Man, cinephiles will also point to Body And Soul and John Huston’s incomparable Fat City as high points of the boxing film genre.
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