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Against the Ropes
Directed by
Charles S. Dutton
PG-13
2004
1h 46m
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5.3
11%
29%
5.0
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A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.
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Cast of Against the Ropes
Meg Ryan
Jackie Kallen
Omar Epps
Luther Shaw
Charles S. Dutton
Felix Reynolds / Director
Tony Shalhoub
Sam LaRocca
Tim Daly
Gavin Reese
Joe Cortese
Irving Abel
Kerry Washington
Renee
Sean Bell
Ray Kallen
Dean McDermott
Pete Kallen
Skye McCole Bartusiak
Little Jackie
Juan Carlos Hernández
Pedro Hernandez
Holt McCallany
Dorsett
Tory Kittles
Devon Green
Beau Starr
Corcoran
Jared Durand
Young Crisco
Diego Fuentes
Car Attendant
Angelo Tucci
Rex
Reg Dreger
Lonnie
Arturo Fresolone
Hernandez's Manager
James Jardine
Ring Announcer
Against the Ropes Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Uninspired tale feels like a made-for-TV movie.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It's an insanely ponderous and almost insulting sequence, stopping the movie cold and forcing the viewer to scratch their head in utter disbelief.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A miscast Ryan struggles with a Detroit accent and a script that goes nowhere.
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
What could have been a Working Girl hoot gets mired in redundant assertions of Kallen's feistiness.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Somewhere along the way, I found myself enjoying Against the Ropes, not in spite of my better judgment, but because something in the movie defies the whole notion of better judgment altogether.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
So anemic you should probably order iron supplements with your popcorn, its plot so predictable it makes falling dominoes seem like a white-knuckle thrill ride.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A boilerplate melodrama whose good guys and bad guys are so baldly drawn they could have been conceived by Friz Freleng.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Ultimately, you've seen it before, and there's no reason to see it again. Let's hope the real Jackie Kallen's life is more inspiring than this.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
By the end, everything that was initially serious about the film becomes silly and everything appealing about it turns sour.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
This lethargic, pseudo-feminist biopic is barely a notch above a bad TV movie, with one-dimensional characters, cliché-ridden dialogue and fight scenes that are badly choreographed and edited.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
As a boxing movie, Against the Ropes is perfunctory... As a biopic, it's likewise uninspired stuff.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
It's hard to buy this minor melding of Rocky and Erin Brockovich as anything but a punched-up star vehicle for an actress in a slump.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It offers lackluster fantasy propped up by cliches. Kallen's story deserves better.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
In the class of American boxing movies, it's barely a welterweight.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Meanders until it gets to the final third of its running time, and then it catches fire.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Written by Cheryl Edwards, Kallen's story is pumped with artificial sweeteners, hokey inevitabilities, and denaturing oversimplifications.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
While Ryan's performance has the proper blend of confidence and cleavage, the movie succeeds only in producing more fight flick cliches than a Rocky movie marathon.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Still Oscar-less, Ryan obviously sees Jackie as her blue-collar scrapper in the Brockovich-Norma Rae mold. What she delivers is very different -- an unwittingly patronizing Great Blond Hope.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A workmanlike production that's simply too predictable and too preposterous to hold our interest.
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