Quickie: Resurrecting the Champ
Resurrecting the Champ (2007)–**
Quickie Review
A fact-driven boxing beat reporter tries to break out of his famous sportscaster father’s shadow by writing a heartbreaking feature on a homeless man who claims to be a legendary boxer. An earnest, but unaffecting sport drama, this Rod Lurie picture has all the skill of the reporter this film follows; it’s a straight-forward, informational drama. Samuel L. Jackson is superb as the homeless boxer, as is Josh Hartnett as the reporter/father trying to impress his own son. Still, the audience would be better served reading the Denver Times Magazine articles on which this feature is based than watching the movie and all of its easy, over-sentimental drama.
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