What a realistic movie - it smacks you hard - Resurrecting the Champ Reviews

In a wealthy society in which most reading this live - few if any ever have any contact with street people, and if they do, they never take the time to really know them -- no less realize what motivates or motivated them. This movie accomplishes this, but who should care about this poor lost soul? The answer is us all. If we are real ourselves and live in a world outside of a sheltered cocoon at best. Samuel L. Jackson does a superb job and is very convincing in his lapses of memory, blurred vision, penchant for alcohol and all of the other trappings that are part and parcel of a boxer who labored too long and hard inside a brutal boxing ring - often to entertain people like you - the readers of this. The story at first seems trite and surely is going only to a predictable end until the truth is discovered about an un-truth, which constitutes the later part of this boxer's life. Those few around him who are affected by it handle this coming of age rendering in various ways that is the real acid test of their characters. This is one of the best movies I have ever seen and I see lots of movies. As a former dock worker and professional boxer myself my heart went out to all of the street people former pugs like this. Thanks, Vaughn