The Dropout is a real-life cautionary account about how far one lie can go and what happens when the world catches on. Watch: The Dropout Ali (2001) — Muhammad Ali Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. On the heels of his Olympic gold medal win in 1960, Muhammad Ali (Will Sm...
Ali Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight 21 votes With wit and athletic genius, with defiant rage and inner grace, Muhammad Ali forever changed the American landscape. Fighting all comers, Ali took on the law, conventions, the status quo and the war -- as well as the fists in front of ...
The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries and Monte Hellman. The film follows Ali's life from the 1960 Olympics to his regaining the heavyweight crown from George Foreman in their famous "Rumble in...
“Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke walk into a hotel room…” might sound like the setup to a bad joke. But in the hands of Regina King, it’s the starting point for a fascinating debate over how to wield Black cultural power in a world that was finally beginning to...
Whereas Mann gets applauded for a similar approach in a film about a tobacco whistleblower (“The Insider”) or biopic about Muhammad Ali (“Ali”), what people failed to realize is that — freed from the boundaries of realism —“Miami Vice” is one of the purest, most enjoyable ...
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Plenty of sports films are about underdogs, but When We Were Kings introduces us to arguably the most compelling ever: some past-his-prime bum named Muhammad Ali. Impossible to imagine now, but in 1974 that’s exactly how the legendary boxer seemed when he signed on to fight the champ, ...
He was a bodyguard for Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard. He Didn’t Get the Memo… Rocky’s corner men at his rematch with Clubber Lang all sported red polo shirts with the word “Rocky” printed across the back, well, except one. Paulie’s shirt says, what else, “Paulie.” ...
Directed by Regina King and based on Kemp Powers' play of the same name, this flick is based on a real-life meeting that occurred at Miami's Hampton House Hotel in February 1964 between four legends—Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke—following Ali's surprise title win ...
(Kingsley Ben-Adir), Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr) gathered to celebrate Ali’s title win against Sonny Liston. Events unfold over the course of a single night as the legendary quartet talk about power, race, discussing their roles in...