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The Champ
The Champ tells the story of a little boy named T.J. who is torn between his divorced parents: a loving mother and an alcoholic ex-boxing father who is now working on his come-back in order to give his boy a better future.
2 September 1938, Denver, Colorado, USA
18 May 1911, New York City, New York, USA
26 August 1915
December 20 in Havana, Cuba
5 February 1926, New York City, New York, USA
22 April 1915, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 August 1922, Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
3 June 1901, Calabria, Italy
18 August 1934, New York, New York, USA
15 July 1966, New York City, New York, USA
November 11, 2004
Voight is fine as boxer on a comeback, but Ricky Schroeder steals the film. I dare you not to cry!
August 21, 2003
Seek out the 1931 King Vidor version.
August 21, 2010
Zeffirelli's inferior remake to King Vidor's 1932 classic, starring Jon Voight in the Oscar-winning role that Wallace Beery had originated, is a manipulative tear-jerking melodrama.
February 19, 2003
Great performance from Jon Voight and Rick Schroeder
January 04, 2005
Pale remake of Wally Berry classic.
May 24, 2003
Even more of a tear-jerker than the 1931 version of the same story, there is not a dry eye on the screen.
April 01, 2007
The tear-jerking is so determined and persistent that your ducts feel as if they'd been worked over with a catheter.
February 13, 2004
I admit it. I cried.
April 01, 2007
The original film took 85 minutes, this one 121; the extra length has not improved the story.
February 09, 2006
A pointless update of King Vidor's '30s weepie.
April 01, 2007
A three-alarm, three-hanky movie of the highest order, perfect for your kids who don't get to see many truly sad films.
May 09, 2005
The most offputting thing about such canny, tear-stained movies as The Champ is not their naïveté but their unholy sophistication. These movies don't mean to deal with the world as it really is, but as it should be.