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Synopsis: Coming of age in small-town Oklahoma. High schooler Cal Chetley is a brainy beanpole who lives with his widowed mother. Ten years earlier his father, a state wrestling champion, died in a car crash. Cal's older brother Mike, also a former wrestling champion but now down and out at 28, is estranged from the family. Over the course of a fall and winter, Cal joins the high school wrestling team while searching out Mike to ask for help. Mike rejects the offer, but Cal is persistent. Will Mike accept the challenge or is he destined to let Cal down? Giving advice and encouragement are an enigmatic old man named Red and a quirky friend named Luli. Then, there's Cal's mom who must be reckoned with.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Mel Damski
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
19%
PG-13
Year:
2010
107 min
£191,875
Website
176 Views


Doesn't look like it to me.

Well, l bet he could show me

a lot of things.

Who? Your brother?

You don't even know where he is.

Yeah, l do.

Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Well.

Would you wear

those little tight-fitting wrestling suits?

(SNORTS)

Yeah, l guess so.

l'd watch you.

(OPERA MUSlC PLAYlNG

ON HEADPHONES)

(EXCLAlMS)

SHARON:
Cal!

-(KNOCKlNG ON DOOR)

-Cal.

-Cal.

-Hey.

Where'd you get that scale?

Donald had an extra one.

Well, l'm not getting on. (CHUCKLlNG)

(CHUCKLES) Ma,

you got nothing to worry about.

You do know what to say.

-How much do you weigh?

-1 37.

ls that good or bad?

lt's... lt's good.

l guess.

-l gotta go.

-Yeah, me, too.

TENNENT:
Good, good.

Keep working it.

Keep it going. Thirty seconds!

Work it! Work it!

-Hi.

-Hi.

What the hell?

You here to watch

or you want to get on the mat?

-l'd like to get on the mat, sir.

-Coach Tennent.

Cal Chetley.

Chetley?

Yes, sir.

What's your weight, Cal?

-1 35-pound class, l guess.

-1 35? All right. We're a little thin there.

Put that down. Take those off.

Follow me to the mat.

All right, ups and downs.

Ups and downs.

-Hey, Timmy, work in with coach for me.

-Yes, sir.

Barrow, l want you to work in with...

Cal, is it?

Cal, here. Half-speed.

Work in the basics.

Cal, down position.

-This is about wrestling now, right?

-Yeah, sure thing, Chetley.

(BLOWS WHlSTLE)

(BOTH GRUNTlNG)

TENNENT:
Whoa, whoa!

Hey, hey! Barrow!

What part of half-speed

didn't you understand?

-Sorry, Coach.

-Come on, help me out here.

Chetley, down again.

Come on, guys. Come on.

On my whistle.

(BLOWS WHlSTLE)

(GRUNTS)

-(BOTH GRUNTlNG)

-(BLOWlNG WHlSTLE)

TENNENT:
Hey, hey, hey, hey!

-TENNENT:
Come on! Come on!

-BOY:
Hey, hey, hey. Relax.

What, you guys have some kind

of history between you?

Yeah, Coach. l think Chetley here

is interested in my mother.

(WRESTLERS LAUGHlNG)

Chetley, are you interested

-in Barrow's mother?

-No, sir.

At least not with all her clothes on.

No. No, gravy, Ma.

No. No, thank you.

-l joined the wrestling team today.

-l knew it.

-l knew it. Damn it. Damn it!

-What?

Scale and dieting. You're wrestling.

-l just said that.

-When did this start?

l just told you. Today.

-Why are you wrestling, Calvin? Why?

-'Cause it looks like it's fun.

No, it doesn't.

-Well, Mike wrestled.

-ls that why you want to wrestle?

No, no. l was just saying Mike wrestled.

Darling, you and Mike

are two entirely different people.

What's that supposed to mean?

lt... lt was in his blood.

Or whatever you guys call it.

Mike needed to wrestle. lt was his thing.

-You have a lot of other things going on.

-Okay, name three things.

(STAMMERlNG)

Geology, science club,

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