Grudge Match (2013)

A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.

Director:

Peter Segal

Writers:

Tim Kelleher (screenplay), Rodney Rothman (screenplay)

Stars:

Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kim Basinger

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jim Lampley	...	Himself
Sylvester Stallone	...	Henry 'Razor' Sharp
Robert De Niro	...	Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen
Rich Little	...	Boxing Announcer (voice)
Ireland Baldwin	...	Young Sally (as Ireland Basinger Baldwin)
Anthony Bean	...	Dante Slate, Sr.
Mason Mackie	...	Young Dante
Kevin Hart	...	Dante Slate, Jr.
Barry Primus	...	Joey the Bartender
Oscar Gale	...	Shipyard Co-Worker
Frederick Douglas Plunkett Jr.	...	Walter
BJ Guyer	...	Jabby the Puppet
Jen Kober	...	Tough Female Customer
Anthony Anderson	...	Mr. Sandpaper Hands
Carrie Lazar	...	Nora

Storyline

Henry "Razor" Sharp and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen are two boxers who thirty years ago were rivals. Just before a big match Razor decides to retire because Billy slept with his girlfriend, Sally Rose and got her pregnant. Today a promoter, Dante Slate wants to have them fight each other but Razor doesn't want to. But when he loses his job and learns he's broke, he has no choice. So he trains under his old trainer. Billy while training, meets B.J., the son he had with Sally Rose and he asks B.J. to train him. And Sally Rose tries to get Razor to forgive her but he can't.

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Plot Keywords:

trainer | retirement | promoter | training | broke | 

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Taglines:

No matter how old you are, come out swinging.

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Genres:

Comedy | Sport

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sports action violence, sexual content and language

Details

Official Sites:

Warner Bros. [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 December 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Zwei vom alten Schlag

Filming Locations:

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$7,310,000 (USA) (27 December 2013)

Gross:

$29,802,761 (USA) (7 March 2014)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Callahan Filmworks, Gerber Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Although Rich Little is billed as simply boxing announcer, he is clearly imitating iconic sportscaster Howard Cosell and his famous "Down goes Frazier!" call from the Joe Frazier-George Foreman fight.

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Goofs

During the final fight, there are signs at the Consol Energy Center for Pepsi Max. However, Pepsi is not sold at the Consol. Neither is Coca-Cola. RC Cola is the soft drink sold at the Consol.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Jim Lampley: Hello again, everybody, I'm Jim Lampley. Certain athletes are born enemies. Bird and Magic. Ali and Frazier. Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. But the fiercest rivalry was be between two fighters from Pittsburgh with the names Razor and Kid.

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Crazy Credits

There are two scenes in the closing credits: Razor, Lightning and Slate watch Kid perform on Dancing with the Stars (2005), and later Slate arranges a rematch between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.

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Connections

Featured in Chelsea Lately: Episode #7.195 (2013)

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Soundtracks

I Want Your Money
Written and Produced by Trevor Rabin
Performed by Dante Marchi and Trevor Rabin

User Reviews

A film that reminds us of Rocky, then makes a laugh about it.

The movie is about Henry "Sharp" Razor (Sylvester Stallone) and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen (Robert De Niro), two boxers who were arch enemies in their prime, then Razor announcement his retirement from boxing which makes McDonnen enrage. 30 years later, the thought of a rematch is asked by the son of the two's previous promoter's son Dante Slate, Jr. (Kevin Hart). McDonnen is all for it, but Razor is not due to his own personal reason (which is said in the film). At the end though the two boxers duke it out but both go home a winner. Personally I thought the movie was amazingly entertaining. Like I said before, it is basically a Rocky Balboa film, as I said as the movie was coming out,"It may have originally been Rocky 7." However the film is a comedy and it has a good amount of laughs within it. If you are a fan of sports films, boxing fan, Kevin Hart, or Sylvester Stallone fan go watch the movie. My biggest grip with the film is the amount of language. I understand that these types of characters would speak this much, and the fact that the movie is PG-13, but there really is an amount of times you can say $H!% and getting annoying/ tired some. I don't know its probably a personal thing. Overall the movie is a great watch, and I will definitely add this to my Rocky collection (even though it isn't a Rocky movie).