A Movie Quest: #4 Warrior
January 10th 2012 16:26
The Fourth movie on my quest was Warrior. Warrior is a 2011 American sports action-drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor and starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, and Nick Nolte. Warrior tells the story of two estranged brothers entering a mixed martial arts tournament, and deals with the brothers' struggling relationship with each other and with their father.
Box Office:
Release date(s) September 9, 2011
Running time 140 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $25 million
Box office $23,057,115
Plot:
The film opens with Tommy Riordan (Hardy) visiting his father, Paddy (Nolte), a former alcoholic who has become a Christian. Tommy becomes angry about his father's formerly abusive behavior, and Paddy fails to convince him that he has truly changed. The next day, Tommy enters a gym where he beats a professional fighter named Pete "Mad Dog" Grimes (Erik Apple) unconscious in less than a minute, in a fight which is filmed via a flip video camera and later uploaded to the Internet where it goes viral. Tommy asks his father to help him train for a winner-takes-all mixed martial arts tournament called Sparta, but only under the condition that they do not try to reconcile their relationship. It is later explained that Tommy enters the tournament in order to give the money he hopes to win to the widow and son of his fallen friend in the Marine Corps.
Cast:Joel Edgerton as Brendan Conlon
Tom Hardy as Tommy Conlon
Nick Nolte as Paddy Conlon
Jennifer Morrison as Tess Conlon
Frank Grillo as Frank Campana
Kurt Angle as Koba
Kevin Dunn as Principal Joe Zito
Denzel Whitaker as Stephon
Erik Apple as Pete "Mad Dog" Grimes
Nate Marquardt as Karl Kruller
Anthony "Rumble" Johnson as Orlando "Midnight" Lee
Josh Rosenthal as himself
Bryan Callen as himself
Rashad Evans as himself
Warrior was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on December 20, 2011.
This was a great movie and is a must see. I will add the Blue Ray DVD to my collection. Simply one of the best films i have seen in awhile.
Rating: 9 stars out of 10
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