Critics Consensus 36% HD CC Drama 2 Hours 2 Minutes 1979 4. 1 • 15 Ratings Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, an ex-champion boxer who was KO'd by booze and gambling. When the wealthy, estranged mother of Flynn's young son begins trying to lure the boy away from him, Flynn must return to the ring to provide for his child. Rent $3. 99 Buy $6. 99 Ratings and Reviews 36% TOMATOMETER Critics Consensus: Information Studio Warner Bros. Released Copyright © 1979 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Languages Primary English (Stereo) Accessibility Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
All I remember about this movie is crying up a lung! The Champ ate me alive and spit me out as a pool of snot and soggy popcorn. I've never seen it since... "Champ, wake up! Please wake up, Champ. " Remember Robert De Niro as Al Capone crying at the opera while his people is killing Sean Connery in The Untouchables? I can easily imagine bad people in real life sobbing their hearts out at the last scene of Franco Zeffirelli's The Champ, not because they are not that bad, or in the end people are complex and there's no such a thing as bad people, or any of that bullshit --but just because this movie is that damn good. Yes, it is a (legendary) tearjerker, and unabashedly so, and it is a simple story first told by King Vidor in 1931, so some critics deemed the remake as utterly pointless at the… Cineworld 30 Day Film Challenge Day 15. A film that broke your heart - The Champ This film truly breaks my heart. A story of a broken family and story of true love. This is a film I remember watching with my mum when I was younger.