Resurrecting The Champ Page #2

Synopsis: A young journalist comes to the aid of a homeless man who claims he is a former heavy weight title contender. Seeing a chance to redeem his struggling career, the writer's story of the champ's life raises questions about the past that will threaten all he holds dear.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Rod Lurie
Production: Yari Film Group Releasing
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
PG-13
Year:
2007
112 min
$2,930,900
Website
137 Views


Look. Don't get like a chick on me,

all right? Be a man.

Recognize your weaknesses and fix 'em.

Slow down a bit, you know?

Think quality.

I got it. Got an appointment.

We write it like this.

What the lawsuit is calling for

is an order to force the E.P. A...

to reassign its approval

over the water standards...

for the rivers

affected by the development.

Mm-hmm. Wyoming and Montana

are going to join as interveners.

Okay.

- Hey, was that you calling last night?

- Yeah, yeah, it was.

Sorry about that.

Hey, did you read the article-

Jermaine fight?

Yeah. It was good.

- It was, wasn't it?

- Very solid.

Yeah, solid. Exactly.

Metz hated it. Of course.

What didn't he like?

What does Metz-

What does Metz ever like?

I don't know. He wasn't specific.

You know,

he's never going to let me write...

on the Broncos or the Nuggets.

Well, maybe Metz will come around.

It doesn't really matter because,

um, I'm having lunch with Whitley.

Today.

I might have a shot at the magazine.

- That's great.

- Yeah, it is.

- That is great.

- Nothing certain yet, but it seems pretty positive.

- That's fantastic.

- Yep.

Does Metz know?

Are you serious?

What are you on?

No, Metz doesn't know.

Hey, I was wondering if I could shoot

some hoops with Teddy this afternoon.

You know,

Teddy's only gonna get used to this...

if we stick on the schedule

that we agreed on.

We're separated, okay?

It's easy for you to say. You haven't

had your son cleaved from you.

All right, all right.

A little overdramatic. Sorry.

Sorry, I'm just-

Ball's in the play box in the garage.

Thank you. Thank you.

- Talk to Metz.

- Sure.

So, um, listen, I was, uh- I was sorry

to hear about your old man.

Mmm. Thank you.

It was cancer, right?

Yeah. Uh, here.

Hmm. Of all places.

- Ironic, right?

- Yeah. We got the iced teas coming?

- Mm-hmm, sure.

- Thank you.

Look, we've read your stuff,

Fred Roselle and I.

And I'm sorry to say,

it's just not there.

Not yet anyway.

The consensus

was that it lacked personality.

Exactly.

I mean, Bing, last year, under Kirby,

I had 192 bylines.

That's the most of any reporter

in the history of the newspaper.

You say my stuff is thin?

Of course it is.

A lot of typing, no writing.

I don't have time.

And this year, I have a new editor.

So I keep an open mind.

And guess what? He's working me

even harder than Kirby was.

I mean, he thinks I'm a machine.

Anytime I bring in a story with just

an ounce of heart, Metz spikes it.

I mean, this is stuff that I think that the magazine should have

- magazine deserves.

- Okay, give me an example.

- Well-

- Is that the mango?

- Yeah.

- It's not the peach?

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