Based on true events, Foxcatcher tells the dark and fascinating
story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric
multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers. When Olympic Gold Medal winning
wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is invited by wealthy heir John du Pont
(Steve Carell) to move on to the du Pont estate and help form a team to train
for the 1988 Seoul Olympics at his new state-of-the-art training facility,
Schultz jumps at the opportunity, hoping to focus on his training and finally
step out of the poverty striken situation Olympic caliber athletes like he and
his revered brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo). Driven by hidden needs, du Pont sees
backing Schultz's bid for Gold and the chance to "coach" a world-class
wrestling team as an opportunity to gain the elusive respect of his peers and,
more importantly, his disapproving mother (Vanessa Redgrave). Trapped in du
Pont's majestic but suffocating world, Mark comes to see his benefactor as an
... Written
by Sony Pictures
Classics
FOXCATCHER is directed by Bennett Miller, written by E. Max
Frye & Dan Futterman, and produced by Anthony Bregman, Megan Ellison, Jon
Kilik & Bennett Miller.
As this was a movie that I had lived through the true story playing out
in the news and media, yet not familiar with the entire story when I found out
they were making the film there was some interest in seeing it. Playing the
lead role was a completely transformed Steve Carell, which was another draw to
this film. Upon watching the film, I felt it had a slow and methodical pace
that spoke to the way things unfolded in real life. Having known the final out
come of this story made it difficult to fully enjoy the film in that I ended up
watching and waiting for the climatic ending to happen rather than being lost
in the events that lead to it. So for FOXCATHER I give it 3 stars.
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