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Price of Glory

Sometimes the toughest battles are fought in your own family.

2000 · 1h 58m · PG-13 Drama
Directed by Carlos Ávila

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Overview

An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches with dad constantly pushing them. Ten years later, they're young men, with dad as both father and manager. A professional promoter, Nick Everson, wants to sign the boys, but dad rejects those offers. Then, in expressions of their varied relationships with their father, each son makes his own decisions. Can dad ever step aside, and can the family hold together?

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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33%
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Rotten

Not particularly well acted, it overstays its welcome and proves simultaneously predictable as a sports film and unconvincing as family drama.

Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times
Rotten

It's a film that avoids many of the genre cliches but, in so doing, loses the highs and lows that make us connect with these stories.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten

Very obvious, very earnest and a little overwrought.

John Anderson, Newsday
Fresh

Among boxing movies, Raging Bull remains the all-time champ at breaking the mold. But Price of Glory fills it well.

Tom Sime, Dallas Morning News
Fresh

It's not the TKO you hoped for, but you will get your moral victory.

Sharon Pian Chan, Seattle Times

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