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Foxcatcher (2014)

Drama | 129 minutes
3,21 727 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 129 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Bennett Miller

Stars: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo

IMDb score: 7,0 (154.335)

Releasedate: 14 November 2014

Foxcatcher plot

"Ambition. Power. Control."

Foxcatcher tells the true story of the Olympic Champions as well as brothers Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont (Steve Carell). John is the heir to Du Pont Chemical. Their collaboration eventually led to a shocking tragedy.

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IH88

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“Coach is the father. Coach is a mentor. Coach has great power on athlete's life.”

Phew, what a long-winded and boring movie this is. Few dialogues, lots of stares, poorly developed characters and a boring cinematography. Fortunately, the acting is excellent. Tatum especially impresses as taciturn Mark and Ruffalo is also good as his brother David. I also thought Carrell was good in itself, although his mannerisms start to irritate. At a certain point you are no longer looking at a person of flesh and blood, but at a character.

The characters also remain very abstract because too little background information is given and the story is served so slowly and bone dry. Long films are not bad at all and slow films are not at all if the story is good and you can empathize with the characters. In Foxcatcher you have no idea where director Bennett Miller is going with his story and what he wants to say about these characters and their motivations. Why Mark and Du Pont have such a strong bond and later get into a fight is still completely unclear to me. I really had to use all my perseverance to watch the movie and that can't be the intention when watching a movie. It rarely happens that with a film no character, scene or storyline will stay with me, but Foxcatcher manages it nicely. Too bad, because the actors are excellent.

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blurp194

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terrifying.

Not really known as a sport in the Netherlands I believe, wrestling. And certainly not as a top sport or something you would focus on if you ever dreamed of making it to the Olympic Games. About as popular as curling perhaps. But that is a bit different in America, and certainly in the states in the middle - just to avoid a term like bible belt.

What the film really does brilliantly is portray the oppressive atmosphere of both the utterly pathological situation between the heir and his mother, and the equally sick atmosphere in the team he sets up. But there is also a small voice in my head that that is also something that perhaps belongs to top sport. Top athletes are special people, that is necessary to be able to deliver a necessarily extraordinary performance. But that does not always result in very healthy and pleasantly normal psychological situations, which is the downside. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, after all, there are more than enough ordinary people out there already, but the film does show quite relentlessly how that works.

Also impressive is how Carell and Tatum act. Weird, flat, dull, monomaniac and hardly humane, that's how they come across. And then the little better Ruffalo who has to act as a sort of mediator between them. Epic fail, but very well acted and also very strong from the direction.

Not that that makes for a good movie, by the way. I don't need to see him again, then I'll just worry about the top athletes in my circle of acquaintances.

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Brothers David [Mark Ruffalo] and Mark Schultz [Channing Tatum] both won gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Three years later, the brothers prepare together for the 1988 Olympics. Suddenly, Mark receives an invitation from the wealthy John du Pont [Steve Carrell] to come and train at his Foxcatcher estate, where he has had a beautiful training complex built. However, David chooses to stay with his family and that leaves Mark without him for the first time in his life, but soon John realizes that he needs David to have any chance of success. Carrell is downright terrifying as the muddled millionaire with a serious mother complex. Channing Tatum convincingly deals with his image as a beautiful boy and also followed a heavy training to convince as an Olympic wrestling champion. Ruffalo and Vanessa Redgrave (as John's mother) also impress in this psychological thriller that is full of suspense from the start.

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