A Paramount Pictures release; opens Friday. In this one, Rogue is a teenage girl. It's like a parody of a boxing movie at this point. ")As it is, Dutton, in his feature film directorial debut, tries to handle the script and performances with something approaching realism, which tends to make them seem even sillier. Join me for the magnificent tale of Jackie Kallen, a real person who is barely depicted on the screen, and "Lethal" Luther Shaw, a fighter thought to be (extremely) loosely based on James "Lights Out" Toney, as they make their way from the ghetto to a big fight for the middleweight championship of the world.This could have been a great movie. The source material was there. And if Dutton and Edwards had told that story--reflecting Jackie's real personality, the real time period and the fact that she was already a highly successful journalist, TV personality and sports publicist before her managing career--they might have had a more interesting or more convincing story. Luther Shaw Rd, Cummington, MA 01026 - realtor.com® × It looks like Cookies are disabled in your browser. Soon, she also signs up super-trainer Felix Reynolds (Dutton), now retired and working at the unemployment office despite a career in which, according to Jackie, "he turned more chumps into champs than Eddie Futch. "Against the Ropes" is a fatally starry-eyed movie about Cleveland's feisty Jackie Kallen (played by Meg Ryan), a real-life boxing manager who became the most successful woman ever in her unlikely profession.Jackie's story is pretty fascinating, a trailblazer who broke gender barriers and outfoxed her male competition in the most machismo American sport and in the markedly unfeminine world of sweaty gyms and hard-case promoters.But if you're looking for that story, you won't find it here. It is insane to the point of being hilarious. And to stick it to a manager who just gave them a hot prospect and rising star?Not that I take this seriously, mind you, but the idea of all of this amuses me. Get out of the ring!
To get this fight, Jackie has to make a deal with a promoter who has been demeaning her since he first appeared on the screen, Sam LaRocca (Tony Shalhoub), who has mob ties that are never explicitly stated but are very clear.It's all a bit much. This is not a movie about a fighter. But she'd be more at home in the world of "Charlie's Angels" than of "Ali" or "Raging Bull"--and by the time we reach "Ropes' " "inspirational" climax, the movie has almost plunged to "Charlie's Angels'" low-fi story level.When we first meet the movie's Jackie, there's more promise. Pro Boxer: Record Manager: Sam Lampe Photo #2, Photo #3. They were given a lousy script that I'm guessing got chopped all to hell, and the end result is a choppy, inconsistent movie that rushes along and never firmly establishes its characters as people we can or should care about. Luther Village Sales Center 1220 Village Drive #145 Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 847.506.1919. We do this all the time. On Oct 28, 1944, a scheduled bout with Willie Joyce was canceled, and Luther (Slugger) White forced to retire from boxing, when it was disclosed that White had a glass eye. Managed and offered by Shaw Realty Services. Luckily, she's able to don one more skin-clinging outfit and prod them all to glory in the climactic scene, where the movie reaches its acme of absurdity. "Against the Ropes" is only the latest sorry example. Luther Fred Shaw, age 57, formerly of Fountain Inn, died, Monday, April 5, 2010 in the Golden Living Center at Brookview, Indianapolis, Indiana. Jackie pursues a fight for Luther with the middleweight champion, HERNANDEZ, who turns out to be just about the most talentless movie boxer in history, though Shaw isn't far behind himself. Directed by Charles S. Dutton. Previous to joining the Shaw Company, Peg was a partner in a mid-size property management company, in the northwest suburbs, specializing in multi-family living developments.
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