TV Guide: Resurrecting The Champ

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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:35:00 -0400

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Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:28:10 -0400

Director and co-screenwriter (along with Chris Gerolmo, Allison Burnett, and Michael Bortman) Rod Lurie tells the uplifting tale of a sports writer who almost lost it all before stumbling into the story of a lifetime in this uplifting sports-themed drama starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson. Erik (Hartnett) is a Denver-based sports writer whose prose is dull and whose marriage is failing. Not only is Erik having a difficult time dealing with his stubborn editor Metz (Alan Alda) - who refuses to take the suffering scribe off of the boxing beat - but the pain of being separated from his young son has weighed heavier on Erik's conscience than he could have ever imagined. When Erik sees a local homeless man (Samuel L. Jackson) being violently assaulted by a gang of sadistic street toughs, he instinctively comes to the suffering man's rescue. As fate would have, Erik discovers that the nondescript homeless man is actually the former boxing champion Battling Bob Satterfield, whom many sports fans had assume

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Apple Movie Trailers — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:21:19 -0400

Struggling sports reporter Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) encounters a homeless man who calls himself Champ (Samuel L. Jackson) only to determine that he is the one-time boxing champion Battling Bob Satterfield. What begins as a story about resurrecting a once-great man becomes Erik s title shot. In his journey to uncover the truth, Erik has to reexamine his own life and his relationship with his young son.