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Jungleland (2018)

Jungleland poster
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
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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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