Foxcatcher
2014 · Movie · R · 134 min · ★ 6.7 · 85% critics
Based on true events, this drama follows Olympic wrestlers who join a wealthy sponsor’s elite training program for the 1988 Games. What begins as a promising opportunity slowly turns tense and unsettling as power, ambition, and control start to shape everything around them.
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Details
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-11-14
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Critic score
- 85/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (2,482 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy slow, serious true-story dramas with strong acting and a tense mood; not for you if you want a fast-moving sports movie with clear emotional payoffs, like The Hurricane or The Hammer.
Pros: strong performances; unsettling atmosphere; true-story tension | Cons: slow pacing; sparse dialogue; thin backstory
Themes
- sports
- wrestling
- biography
- based on true story
- tragedy
- brothers
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 2015 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 2015 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Makeup and Hairstyling · 2015 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 2015 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 2015 · nominated
Cast & crew
Steve Carell
as John du Pont
Channing Tatum
as Mark Schultz
Mark Ruffalo
as David Schultz
Sienna Miller
as Nancy Schultz
Vanessa Redgrave
as Jean du Pont
Anthony Michael Hall
as Jack
Guy Boyd
as Henry Beck
Brett Rice
as Fred Cole
Jackson Frazer
as Alexander Schultz
Samara Lee
as Danielle Schultz
Directed by Bennett Miller