The Jesse Ventura Story

TV Movie
1999
Unrated
1h 27m

IMDb RATING

3.8/10

324

YOUR RATING

Biography Drama

Biography of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura follows his life beginning as a youngster to election as the Governor of Minnesota in 1998.Biography of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura follows his life beginning as a youngster to election as the Governor of Minnesota in 1998.Biography of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura follows his life beginning as a youngster to election as the Governor of Minnesota in 1998.

Director
- David Jackson
Writers
- Patricia Jones
- Donald Reiker
Stars

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IMDb RATING

3.8/10

324

YOUR RATING

Director
- David Jackson
Writers
- Patricia Jones
- Donald Reiker
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
This biopic about former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura premiered on the same night that another professional wrestler, Owen Hart, tragically passed away after falling from the rafters at a live pay per view event in Kansas City, MO.

Goofs
Generally makes up several facts about Jesse's life and career in wrestling including fictionalizing wrestlers, events, people, and places. Almost nothing presented in the movie is true.

Crazy credits
The following text appears at the end of the movie just before the end credits: "Certain events in this drama based on fact are interpretive, certain characters are composite or have been fictionalized, and some names and locations have been changed".

Connections
Referenced in WCW Monday Nitro: Spring Breakout 1999 (1999)

Soundtracks
Preachin' The Blues
Written by Billy Sullivan, Jimmie Wood, JJ Holiday
Performed by The Imperial Crowns
Courtesy of Sullystone Music BMI, JJ Holiday Music BMI, Strictly Hits Music ASCAP

User reviews15

Featured review

A story done like a shakespeare play complete with asides

I like the concept of a JESSIE VENTURA movie...but more could have been made about his military exploits in vietnam. This movie was a money maker but also a semi spoof....I was offended. (now I must walk out into the woods and shoot myself) The film was supposed to be like ROCKY but was written by hacks over a period of two or three days...I hate pulp tv movies. Nancy Anne Sakovich does her best to impersonate Maren Jensen, alas, it doesn't work. Don't get me wrong if they paid what she got I would have dressed up in drag and played her role. her acting wasn't bad it was the speed at which this was evidently filmed...not giving time for re-shoots. A shake and bake tv movie...which is fine..they all got paid who cares? evidently not the people who worked on it. The film glossed over his life and made him out to be more of a comic book hero than a man who has stood up to the forces of intolerance like the chrisitian coalition again and again. Who cares if he was a wrestler, he's a govenor...big deal. In our system anyone can go into politics..however, never me. It was just a movie...relax.