Jungleland (2018)

Directed by

Max Winkler

Genre

drama film, boxing film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 163 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two brothers are struggling to get by. One is a former boxer, the other is his manager with gambling debts. They take on a dangerous job driving a woman across the country and entering an underground fight.

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What happens

Jungleland is a 2019 American sports drama film directed by Max Winkler, from a screenplay by Winkler, Theodore B. Bressman, and David Branson Smith. Starring Charlie Hunnam, Jack O'Connell, Jessica Barden, Jonathan Majors, John Cullum, and Nick Mullen, the film follows Walter "Lion" Kaminski (O'Connell), a former professional boxer whose ex-convict brother and manager Stanley (Hunnam) is indebted to gangster Pepper (Majors). In order to pay off his brother's debt, Lion agrees to drive Sky (Barden) across the country and to participate in an underground boxing match. Jungleland premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 6, 2020, to positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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