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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