Play It to the Bone
After covering baseball in Bull Durham, basketball in White Men Can't Jump. and golf in Tin Cup, writer, director, and obvious sports fan Ron Shelton takes on the world of boxing in this comedy. Vince Boudreau (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar Sota (Antonio Banderas) are close friends and aspiring boxers struggling on the lowest rungs of the fight game. When a major boxing promoter needs to fill out the card for a heavyweight bout in Las Vegas, Vince and Cesar both get the call to head out to Sin City. But the excitement sours when they realize that there's a small problem: the promoter's schedule has the two pals fighting each other. Play It to the Bone also features Lolita Davidovich, Lucy Liu, Tom Sizemore, and Robert Wagner.
Director: Ron Shelton
Starring: Woody Harrelson,Antonio Banderas, Lolita Davidovich, Lucy Liu, Tom Sizemore
Either Shelton knows this world well, or he's such a great bluffer it doesn't matter.
Another invigorating, extremely raunchy sports movie from Ron Shelton .
Fghting your heart out at the end of this movie can't win the prize or the crowd.
A boxing film with no conflictual punch.
(Shelton) knows how to write pungent dialogue that covers a multitude of sins when the film goes off the rails.
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