Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Weapons
  • Follies
  • I Have Never Been on an Airplane
  • Nova 78'
  • Alexina B. Composing Lives
  • Long Road to the Director's Chair (The)
  • Griffin in Summer
  • Girls & Boys
  • Premiere (The)
  • Unforgivable
  • Wayward
  • Cutaways
  • My Sunnyside
  • Brigitte’s Planet B
  • How Far Does The Dark Go?
  • Brief History of the LGBT+ Press in Brazil (A)
  • Internal Comms
  • Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos
  • Mothers, Lovers and Others
  • Labyrinth of Lost Boys
  • Gunyo Cholo: The Dress
  • Days of August
  • Chica Quinqui
  • After the Hunt
  • Desire Lines
  • History of Two Warriors
  • Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically
  • Einfach machen - She-Punks von 1977 bis heute
  • Couture
  • Out Standing
  • History of Sound (The)
  • Cinema Jazireh
  • Imagine
  • TURA!
  • Flower Girl
  • Maspalomas
  • Old Guys in Bed
  • Private Life (A)
  • Sane Inside Insanity - The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror
  • Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing

Fighter (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 115 mins

  • Director: David O. Russell
  • Writer: Scott Silver; Paul Tamasy
  • Producer: Darren Aronofsky; Dorothy Aufiero

CGiii Comment

Christian Bale gives a stunning performance - well-balanced by Wahlberg.

The boxing scenes are a little weak but, overall, it is a fine character study of redneck life.


Trailer...

 

The(ir) Blurb...

The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.

Cast & Characters

Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward;
Christian Bale as Dicky Eklund;
Amy Adams as Charlene Fleming;
Melissa Leo as Alice Ward;
Mickey O'Keefe as Himself;
Jack McGee as George Ward;
Melissa McMeekin as 'Little Alice' Eklund;
Bianca Hunter as Cathy 'Pork' Eklund;
Erica McDermott as Cindy 'Tar' Eklund;
Jill Quigg as Donna Eklund Jaynes;
Dendrie Taylor as Gail 'Red Dog' Eklund;
Kate B. O'Brien as Phyllis 'Beaver' Eklund;
Jenna Lamia as Sherri Ward;
Frank Renzulli as Sal Lanano;
Paul Campbell as Gary 'Boo Boo' Giuffrida