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Grunt! The Wrestling Movie

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A documentary filmmaker (Jeff Dial) tries to prove that a new wrestler, the Mask, is in fact the late Mad Dog Joe.
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Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel After an amusing first five minutes, the film quickly becomes a chore. Rated: 2/5 Sep 21, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Marcus W In the top three wrestling movies of all time. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/21/23 Full Review KEVIN C I haven't watched this since I was a teenager. Grunt is a faux documentary about the legend of Joe DeCurso a professional wrestler who in a title match in 1979 accidentally decapitated his opponent. Legend has it he did jail time then threw himself off a bridge. But now a new wrestler known as The Mask has burst on the scene and the documentarians are trying to find out if the mask is actually Joe DeCurso. This is kind of fun for a mid eighties wrestling movie which uses a lot of actual wrestlers. Ridiculous but fun looking back at this one. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 12/17/22 Full Review Audience Member Best movie of all time. A must see. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Poor 80's wrestling mockumentary fails to reveal the identity of The Mask, despite being unmasked. A documentary on Mr. Wrestling II would have been more interesting. He declined attending President Jimmy Carter's inauguration rather than unmask. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Professional wrestling during the 1980s was booming as never before, and many in Hollywood wanted to capitalize on the marriage between pro wrestling and rock n' roll. This film is a tremendous reflection of that era. It is a mockumentary of professional wrestling while maintaining kayfabe. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Sorry, but this was horse shit. It was not funny despite thinking that it was and treated wrestling as a joke, but in a bad way. Production values were terrible, the lines were awful, and the whole time you wish you were just watching something else, like say oh... actual professional wrestling. At least there was a little bit of Dick Murdoch and Adrian Street in there. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A documentary filmmaker (Jeff Dial) tries to prove that a new wrestler, the Mask, is in fact the late Mad Dog Joe.
Director
Allan Holzman
Producer
Tony Randel, Don Normann
Screenwriter
Roger D. Manning
Production Co
New World Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 20, 2017
Runtime
1h 30m
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