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Bleed for This

  • 2016
  • R
  • 1h 57m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
29K
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Aaron Eckhart, Miles Teller, and Christine Evangelista in Bleed for This (2016)
BLEED FOR THIS is the incredible true story of one of the most inspiring and unlikely comebacks in sports history. Miles Teller (Whiplash, Divergent) stars as Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Pazienza, a local Providence boxer who shot to stardom after winning 2 world title fights. After a near-fatal car accident leaves Vinny with a severed spine, doctors tell him he may never walk again. With the help of renowned trainer Kevin Rooney (Aaron Eckhart), Vinny becomes a legend when he not only walks again, but miraculously returns to the ring to reclaim his title belt only a year after the accident.
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The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza who, after a near fatal car crash which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports' most incredible comeb... Read allThe inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza who, after a near fatal car crash which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports' most incredible comebacks.The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza who, after a near fatal car crash which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports' most incredible comebacks.

  • Director
    • Ben Younger
  • Writers
    • Ben Younger
    • Pippa Bianco
    • Angelo Pizzo
  • Stars
    • Miles Teller
    • Aaron Eckhart
    • Katey Sagal
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    29K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ben Younger
    • Writers
      • Ben Younger
      • Pippa Bianco
      • Angelo Pizzo
    • Stars
      • Miles Teller
      • Aaron Eckhart
      • Katey Sagal
    • 77User reviews
    • 149Critic reviews
    • 62Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations

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    Come On Paz
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    He Dont Hit Like A Girl
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    How To Give Up
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    'Bleed for This': He Don't Hit Like a Girl
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    Bleed For This: Come On! (French Subtitled)
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    Bleed For This: How ya feel? (Dutch Subtitled)
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    Aaron Eckhart and Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)
    Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)
    Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, and Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)
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    Vinny Pazienza and Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)
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    Aaron Eckhart and Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)
    Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, and Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)
    Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, and Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)
    Aaron Eckhart and Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)
    Aaron Eckhart and Miles Teller in Bleed for This (2016)

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    Miles Teller
    Miles Teller
    • Vinny
    Aaron Eckhart
    Aaron Eckhart
    • Kevin Rooney
    Katey Sagal
    Katey Sagal
    • Louise
    Ciarán Hinds
    Ciarán Hinds
    • Angelo
    Ted Levine
    Ted Levine
    • Lou Duva
    Jordan Gelber
    Jordan Gelber
    • Dan Duva
    Amanda Clayton
    Amanda Clayton
    • Doreen
    Daniel Sauli
    Daniel Sauli
    • Jon
    Christine Evangelista
    Christine Evangelista
    • Woman in Caesar's Hotel Room
    Tina Casciani
    Tina Casciani
    • Heather
    Liz Carey
    Liz Carey
    • Charity - Woman Freaked out by Halo
    Denise Schaefer
    • Leigh
    Peter Quillin
    • Roger Mayweather
    Jean Pierre Augustin
    • Gilbert Dele
    • (as Jeanpierre Augustin)
    Edwin Rodriguez
    • Roberto Duran
    Marv Albert
    Marv Albert
    • Announcer at Duran Fight
    Al Bernstein
    Al Bernstein
    • Announcer at Duran Fight
    Joe Jafo Carriere
    • Cebol
    • Director
      • Ben Younger
    • Writers
      • Ben Younger
      • Pippa Bianco
      • Angelo Pizzo
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    • Trivia
      Miles himself was in a near-fatal car crash just one year before his friend died in a car crash. He now wears a green bracelet that reads "Buckle up for Bo" in his honor. The bracelet can be seen in most of his films except for when it doesn't fit his character.
    • Goofs
      Late in the film, the TV in Vinnie's living room makes reference to the Red Sox "chasing the Yankees for the wild-card...". The concept of a "wild-card" wasn't introduced into MLB until 1994, over 2 years after the scene takes place. Neither Boston or New York were in contention as division leaders during the later part of the 1992 MLB season.
    • Quotes

      Kevin Rooney: I mean, you just don't know how to give up.

      Vinny Pazienza: No, I do. Trust me, I do. I know exactly how to give up. You know what scares the shit out of me, Kev? Is that it's easy.

    • Crazy credits
      In the first part of the end credits, footage of the real people is shown.
    • Connections
      Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Aaron Eckhart/Michelle Dockery/Margo Price/Atom Willard (2016)
    • Soundtracks
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      Written by Kirk Robinson and Roy C.

      Performed by Audio Two

      Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp

      By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

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    8/10
    Never retreat, never surrender!
    Feeling the lack is the first step to greatness. If you're fine with status quo you may never achieve something bigger. I'm pretty sure I have read something like this somewhere.

    At least it's a fitting motto to „Bleed for This", the sports movie about this real-life young boxing champ who broke his neck and still managed to get back in form and claim another world champion belt.

    More than that, Wikipedia says that he held it for over the next ten years. The guy's called Vinny Paz and he's 54 now, by the way.

    So yes, it's another sports movie aiming „to the infinity and beyond"… but it doesn't go all Hollywood on our asses and actually manages to be a really good indie watch, having both heart and balls.

    „Bleed for This" came out back in September and circled some festivals before reaching cinemas. The commercial success of the movie, sadly, hasn't been worthy of its tough-as-nails hero. It pretty much came and disappeared without a splash and hasn't gotten any award nominations either, big or small.

    Quite why the producers and distributors didn't believe in the project enough to support it some, for Globes and Academy Awards campaign, at least, is beyond my comprehension. It's a true underdog story, also a sports movie – who doesn't like those, eh? – and also good movie in general.

    (Probably the post-Trumpian USA needs more unpretentious happy tales like „La La Land" which has just managed to pick 7 out of 7 Globes.)

    OK but what makes „Bleed for This" so great, then? Isn't there enough underdog and sports movies, award-winning or otherwise?

    Well, I am glad you asked. In short, I like everything about it! The indie style, the atmosphere and feeling of the early 1990's working class USA, the great group of starring actors, the hardhitting boxing, the screenplay…

    The result is not perfect – what is, anyway? – and one could nitpick about many things if wanted to.

    For example, the movie runs near two hours which is not exactly a short amount of time… but one does not get a good sense of Vinny Paz's development as a champion sportsman, or even exactly how the recovery from the big accident went. Of course, it's all explained in passing, but it doesn't satisfy to the fullest.

    Maybe it's just me because I enjoyed visiting Vinny's world, family and environment so much that I left the cinema wanting more. „Bleed for This" is one of those rather uncommon sports movies that is not afraid to let characters and story breathe and develop enough to lure us in, to make us want really be there for the characters, not just flashy action.

    This kind of intimate connection to the movie mostly happens when its makers have strong personal connection with the whole thing too.

    Seeing that Ben Younger is the director and the sole writer, we can assume it was a personal project and he makes the most out of everybody on screen.

    The big name actors here are Miles Teller as Vinny Paz, Ciarán Hinds as his father (somehow I always confuse the guy with Alfred Molina) and Aaron Eckhart as his boxing trainer.

    All the others have given good performances too, but these three are really worth every penny the producers had to spend on them. Which was probably not too much because the budget was about 6 million US dollars and shooting lasted for only 24 days.

    They play it rough and raw, turning the characters into believable working-class heroes. Mark Wahlberg would have probably loved to be part of this experience. There are no showoff scenes so there's not much to talk about it, only enjoy it. Feel it, live it, breathe it!

    I am especially happy about Aaron Eckhart choosing a worthwhile acting role again for a change. For most of the current decade, he has been doing boring commercial crap which is a world away from the works that made him known in the first place.

    Here he seems to channel a younger less fat version of James Gandolfini which is enough for me to wish him a Supporting Actor Oscar, or at least a nomination.

    And last but certainly not the least, „Bleed for This" cements Miles Teller's position as one of the most promising young American movie actors of his generation.

    You almost remember him from big studio projects „Divergent" + „Insurgent" and 2015's „Fantastic Four" but he has also starred in a row of cool indie-er movies such as „The Spectacular Now" and „Whiplash".

    The former quirky cool guy has transformed himself for the never- surrender-type boxer role but manages to turn what on paper seems like a cartoon character into living breathing human being. He should also get nominated for Oscar.

    Ben Younger has previously only written and directed two feature length movies, 2000's really good „Boiler Room" and 2005's rather meh „Prime". It's nice to see him back with another success!

    "Bleed for This" doesn't offer a biggest amount of boxing I have seen in a boxing movie. But I just read from IMDb that Teller was trained by Darrell Foster, who has trained fighters like Sugar Ray Leonard and helped Will Smith become Muhammad Ali for 2001's Ali.
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    • Release date
      • November 18, 2016 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Paz: The Vinny Pazienza Story
    • Filming locations
      • Dunkin' Donuts Center - 1 La Salle Square, Providence, Rhode Island, USA(Dele and Duran Fight)
    • Production companies
      • Verdi Productions
      • Magna Entertainment
      • Bruce Cohen Productions
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    • Budget
      • $6,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $5,083,906
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,366,810
      • Nov 20, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $6,698,679
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 57 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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