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JohnN.Jun 4, 200210This is Hoop Dreams for Boxers. A well done documentary about the real drama of boxing. My prayers go to Tyrene.
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80In recording life as it unfolds in the course of a year, On the Ropes not only defies prediction as to its outcome but is in some ways downright confounding...as involving and suspenseful as the best fictional films.
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The documentary has no narration, and uses excellent expository camerawork to say things that no narrator could equal.
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Burstein and Morgen take all this in from an unobtrusive middle distance, letting the subjects themselves slowly complicate the profusion of athletic and ghetto-real clichés that fly scattershot in the early going.