Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)

Directed by

Daniel Graham

Genre

history, drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

14

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 212 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A movie about Jem Belcher, a boxer who became the youngest world champion. He lost his sight at 22 and died young. The story follows his rise in the sport of bare-knuckle boxing.

biographicaldramatichistoricalinspirationaltragicunderdogdeterminedgritty

What happens

Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher is a 2022 British-American biographical drama film about the birth of boxing, written by and starring Matt Hookings. The film explores the life of Jem Belcher who became the youngest ever world champion. Jem was partially blind at the age of 22 and dead by the age of 30. The film stars Matt Hookings as Jem Belcher, Ray Winstone as his trainer Bill Warr and Russell Crowe as Jem's boozy grandfather Jack Slack. Marton Csokas, Jodhi May, Steven Berkoff, Julian Glover, Julius Francis are the supporting cast. The film was first theatrically released in Russia on June 30, 2022, and it had a VOD release by Amazon Prime on July 22, 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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