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Streets of Gold

Three visions. Two fighters. One dream. Their time is now.

1986 · 1h 35m · R Drama
Directed by Joe Roth

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Overview

Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Jew. Depressed and discouraged, he meets two young amateur boxers. As their coach, he trains them for glory.

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31%
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Rotten

A likable, but hardly compelling story.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

A lot of the film was shot in Brighton Beach, and looks authentic, but everything else is either synthetic or derivative, like the musical score.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

It's a wonder nobody had thought of casting Brandauer as a boxer before -- his work is so full of devilish feints and tricky, misleading expressions.

Paul Attanasio, Washington Post
Rotten

Streets of Gold starts out to make a statement about the kind of person this Russian emigre was, and it ends up using him as the backdrop for a tired Hollywood formula.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

A rousing ringside drama with Austrian hunk Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Rita Kempley, Washington Post

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