Hart Still Beating (2016)

Directed by

Kurt Spenrath

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows father and son wrestlers Matt and Smith Hart. They reconnect through professional wrestling after years apart, dealing with Smith's terminal cancer and Matt's childhood loss of his mother.

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What happens

Hart Still Beating: Pro Wrestling Saved My Life - A Hart Family Documentary (often simply known as Hart Still Beating) is a 2016 Canadian short documentary directed by Kurt Spenrath and Frederick Kroetsch for Telus about professional wrestlers Matt and Smith Hart, father and son from the Hart family. The film concerns Matt's childhood from that of the death of his mother as well as Smith's terminal cancer diagnosis which leads to them growing closer to each other through professional wrestling after being near estranged for many years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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