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Fighting

Some dreams are worth the fight.

A poor Southern youth moves to New York to scratch out an existence. Through happenstance, he meets an underground fight promoter and is soon working his way up the ladder. His father was a wrestling coach, but they had issues, and now he is out to impress his new ''father''. Along the way he becomes romantically involved with a pretty waitress. However his next fight, for a mammoth 100K, is against his childhood nemesis, now fully grown and very strong ...

105 minutes, No persons under 13 (Language, Violence)
Action, Drama.

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Credits
Cast	Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Zulay Henao, Michael Rivera, Flaco Navaja, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Luis Guzman
Director	Dito Montiel
Screenplay	Robert Munic, Dito Montiel
Music	Jonathan Elias, David Wittman
Cinematography	Stefan Czapsky
Editing	Saar Klein, Jake Pushinsky
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, DTS
Soundtrack	Not available
Made in	2009
Produced by	Misher Films, Relativity Media, Rogue Pictures
SA Distributor	UIP

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action, drama
Language	Some
Nudity	None
Sex	Mild
Violence	Strongish
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	There is medium-level violence though it is not as one might expect in this genre.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith	10
Die BurgerFrancois Bloemhof	5
24.comFinn Gregory	10
International Media
Box Office (USA)John P. McCarthy	8
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	15
eye Weekly (Canada)Kate Carraway	5
ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs	6
Metacritic.com22 critics	12
RottenTomatoes.com111 critics	10
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	8
Internet (IMDB)1869 Netizens	10

Average .. 45%	9

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