A champion boxer fights to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career, after a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction.
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Some prints of the film, at the end of the credits, have "In Memory of Our Friend James Horner," who died in a plane crash days before the film opened for release. See more »
Goofs
Jimmy Lennon Jr. acts as the ring announcer for the HBO boxing broadcasts in the movie. However, in real life, Jimmy Lennon Jr. is the announcer for Showtime, and Michael Buffer is the announcer for HBO. See more »
Quotes
Billy Hope:
I can handle the rules, man, I'll handle the rules.
Tick Wills:
No playing around, no being late. None of that.
Billy Hope:
Yeah, fuck it, I'm in.
Tick Wills:
No swearing. Did I tell you no swearing?
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Let's start by saying what everyone else was thinking: "What else is new?" We have all seen this movie before. It follows the very uninspired formula that Hollywood has been using for years now; there is nothing cutting edge about the premise of Southpaw.
Where it defied expectation was in its raw emotion. Everything that makes Southpaw good lies in the performance of the entire cast. Jake Gyllenhaal, in particular, simply could not have been more exceptional. His portrayal of loss, victory, sorrow, shame, anger, guilt, and love were unbearably palpable, and made the movie an intensely uncensored work. This is a performance you simply CANNOT pass up. I also appreciated the ways in which the last boxing scene was shot. It takes the grueling perspective of Billy Hope himself and his competitor. That camera angle put the viewer in the closest possible position of the two boxers while in a fight which made the scene all the more terrifying and all the more wicked awesome.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Yeah yeah.. We all have seen at least 18 movies of a successful man losing everything that could ever possibly matter to him; however, the difference is that never have I experienced it more vividly than in Southpaw. Props to Gyllenhaal again for making me feel things that most actors will continue to fail to do.
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Let's start by saying what everyone else was thinking: "What else is new?" We have all seen this movie before. It follows the very uninspired formula that Hollywood has been using for years now; there is nothing cutting edge about the premise of Southpaw.
Where it defied expectation was in its raw emotion. Everything that makes Southpaw good lies in the performance of the entire cast. Jake Gyllenhaal, in particular, simply could not have been more exceptional. His portrayal of loss, victory, sorrow, shame, anger, guilt, and love were unbearably palpable, and made the movie an intensely uncensored work. This is a performance you simply CANNOT pass up. I also appreciated the ways in which the last boxing scene was shot. It takes the grueling perspective of Billy Hope himself and his competitor. That camera angle put the viewer in the closest possible position of the two boxers while in a fight which made the scene all the more terrifying and all the more wicked awesome.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Yeah yeah.. We all have seen at least 18 movies of a successful man losing everything that could ever possibly matter to him; however, the difference is that never have I experienced it more vividly than in Southpaw. Props to Gyllenhaal again for making me feel things that most actors will continue to fail to do.