Didn't quite storm the box office despite its credentials - Rusty as a boxer, a true life story about a man who was an underdog and fought hi sway to the world championship. How come a film had never been made of it before?
Maybe the story does lack a certain something - happily married men with loving spouses does get a bit boring (and Zegger's botox in a depression-set film is distracting) and perhaps it needed a reversal in the third act or more comedy or there's too much misery and poverty during the Depression sequences or something, I don't know, couldn't quite put my finger on it.
Rusty is perfect and the boxing scenes really good. Note how Max Baer is portrayed as evil by having two women on the go! (That used to be a reward for your heroes - but not under Ron no-nonsense Howard). While Baer's rellies whinged about him being slandered in this film, he did kill people in the ring.
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