
Play It to the Bone
Taste attributes: comedydramasportsfastlightsimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringall consuming questcomplex relationshipgame/competition
Boxlist takeA stirring, uncomplicated comedy, otherwise balanced. Best if you like plain sailing over puzzles.
Taste details
Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: light · Realism: balanced · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
Quality rating
5.7 /10
TMDB · 112 votes
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What lines up
- Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
- Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
- Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
- Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
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Synopsis
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas.
Synopsis: TMDB
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Details
- Genre
- Comedy
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures
- Taste scores
- How we score
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