Watch this when
The Fighter
He loved his family. He also needed to stop letting them run his life. Both can be true.
Who it's for
Micky is the quiet one in a loud family: his mother manages him, his half-brother Dicky trains him, and his career keeps getting bent around their needs and Dicky's crack addiction.
Stuck→Empowered
Feelings it meets
What it is
Based on the real boxers Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund, the film follows Micky, a welterweight from Lowell, Massachusetts, who is managed by his mother Alice and trained by his older half-brother Dicky, a former boxer struggling with crack cocaine addiction.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Crack cocaine addiction and violence.
Age: R (language throughout, drug content, sexuality, some violence)
But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Marriage”
