2015 · action · drama · sports
Southpaw
Directed by Antoine Fuqua2h 3m2015
Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.
Our read: Southpaw (2015) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · drama · sports entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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