The Fighter is a true story about Mickey Ward, an American former professional boxer that stars Mark Wahlberg (The Perfect Storm, The Departed) and Christian Bale (The Dark Knight Rises, American Psycho). Dickie Eklund, Mickey’s older brother of nine years, taught his younger sibling everything he knew about the sport. The film is directed by David O’Russell, who has to his credits two other movies starring Mark Wahlberg (I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings). The backdrop for the film is the streets of Lowell, Massachusetts, a blue-collar, rundown town where everybody is interested in everyone else’s business, and addiction is rampant.
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The Express (2008)
In the mold of Rudy, Remember The Titans, Friday Night Lights, and Brian’s Song comes Gary Fleder’s 2008 The Express starring Rob Brown as Ernie Davis, a Syracuse football running back from the early 1960s, and Dennis Quiad as Ben Schwartzwalder, Ernie’s college football coach. Ernie Davis became the first black athlete ever to win the Heisman Trophy. That is a considerable feat, but some people do not know that Davis succeeded Jim Brown at Syracuse University. Jim Brown is arguably the greatest football player and US athlete ever.