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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World is based on the remarkable true story of one of the greatest comebacks of all time and the transformational power of second chances. Fueled by an impoverished childhood, Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.
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Big George Foreman had a classic sports story to work with; unfortunately, the sluggishly ordinary way it's told here is more Tomato Can than Heavyweight Champion.

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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World is an exciting, feel-good dramatization of an incredible life.

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Christina Newland iNews.co.uk Big George Foreman is hard to actively dislike, but it suffers from the mediocrity endemic to so many sports biopics that don’t have much to say about their subjects other than that they’ve triumphed over adversity. Rated: 2/5 Sep 18, 2024 Full Review Edward Porter Times (UK) ... The script gives us the dullest kind of life-story movie: a simplified, unvarying trudge through a checklist of events. Rated: 2/5 May 1, 2023 Full Review Tim Cogshell AV Club An excellent movie about a beloved figure who indeed seems ageless and whose story includes the kind of comebacks usually reserved for fiction. Rated: B+ May 1, 2023 Full Review Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) This boilerplate biopic covers all bases required, including the spectacular home-shopping success of the Foreman Grill and a truly amazing comeback to the ring in his mid-forties. Rated: 2.5/5 Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Alan French Sunshine State Cineplex The George Foreman biopic is more willing to make a one-off joke about the grills he would sponsor than confront the difficult truths of his life. Rated: 3/10 Aug 31, 2023 Full Review John Serba Decider The movie plays like his Wikipedia entry, covering all the bases without the intimacy of character it needs to inspire our emotional investment... Aug 28, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Hollis H I believe this depiction was accurate and vivid. Everyone involved in directing , acting and production are to be commended for their efforts. GREAT JOB!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/28/23 Full Review DB enjoyed the movie very much! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/03/23 Full Review Vender F The movie was very well done!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/26/23 Full Review Pamela M Well written and portrayed. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/25/23 Full Review Ronald E I like "comeback" stories as a rule. This one is great because it is true and told with authenticity and may I say, grit. I went in thinking it probably was made for adolescents only but came away with the sense that there was a take-home message for people of any age. The story is true and the punch line is multifaceted -- from regaining his heavyweight boxing title and being the oldest man to do so, then Foreman's spiritual rebirth following his coming on hard times with nowhere else to turn but God. His mom's prayers never stopped. While the spiritual dimension is not given much detail, Foreman's story serves to point a young person who is seeking the Way, or who has lost a lot of hope, to pray. God does hear prayer.as in the Sermon on the Mount. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/23/23 Full Review GEORGE V It was a very inspirational movie about a young man that was going through some ruff times & made the most of it to better himself! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

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Synopsis Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World is based on the remarkable true story of one of the greatest comebacks of all time and the transformational power of second chances. Fueled by an impoverished childhood, Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.
Director
George Tillman Jr.
Producer
David Zelon
Screenwriter
Frank Baldwin, George Tillman Jr., Dan Gordon
Distributor
Columbia Pictures
Production Co
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Mandalay Pictures, Affirm Films, State Street Pictures
Rating
PG-13 (Some Sports Violence)
Genre
Biography, Drama, Sports
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 28, 2023, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 16, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA)
$5.3M
Runtime
2h 9m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
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