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Price of Glory
New Line Cinema

Price of Glory reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 32 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
10.0 out of 10
based on 25 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, language and brief drug content

Starring Jimmy Smits, Jon Seda, and Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez

Arturo Ortega (Smits), a former boxing champion, focuses all his attention on the single-minded pursuit of training his three sons to follow in his footsteps, coming close to tearing his family apart in the process.


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Phil Berger  
DIRECTED BY: Carlos Avila  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: November 14, 2000 
Video: November 14, 2000 
Theatrical: March 31, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 118 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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85
Mr. Showbiz Other (Specify)
Complaints? None, except perhaps a wish for more length, and a little more depth.
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75
Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
Hollywood keeps turning out boxing movies. Price of Glory is the latest to step into the ring and face an increasingly no-win situation
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75
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie, while heartfelt and vividly shot, takes too many rote genre turns.
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75
San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson
A movie that features rich Mexican American characters and an uncompromising story line is always timely.
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75
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Price of Glory won't make anyone forget "Raging Bull" or "Rocky."
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63
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Fathers and sons with problems expressing their feelings makes for a story that is universal, and that has also been done to death. Thankfully, the boxing scenes are extensive and pack the appropriate punch.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
When the film suddenly turns into "Rocky" -- as all boxing films of the past two decades invariably do -- it invalidates its theme.
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50
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Price of Glory isn't an embarrassment on the order of the last major boxing movie, "Play It to the Bone," but it's not especially worth intercepting on its way to the video racks.
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50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Despite excellent performances all around, the actors can't overcome the script's limitations.
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Made me feel like I was sitting in McDonald's watching some guy shout at his kids. Price of Glory gives us two hours of that behavior, and it's a miscalculation so basic that it makes the movie painful when it wants, I guess, to be touching.
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50
Miami Herald Curtis Morgan
Moves too slowly, running out of gas in the later rounds of the plot.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A boxing movie that exists in that gray area between prototypical and typical, the quintessential and run-of-the-mill.
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50
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A pretty good film, acted powerfully .
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40
Los Angeles Times Eric Harrison
The specificity of Glory's setting and the ethnicity of its characters enrich the story without moving it one iota away from a mainstream frame of reference.
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38
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Stumbles over its own clumsiness until it goes down for the count.
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30
Film.com Sean Means
It's not easy to go 12 rounds against a cliche-ridden story like Price of Glory and remain standing. But somehow stars Jimmy Smits and Jon Seda, and first-time director Carlos Avila, manage to survive.
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20
Variety Todd McCarthy
May hold some appeal for Latino auds in the Southwest but will fold after a couple of rounds in the big arena.
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20
Film.com Ernest Hardy
Not a very good movie; it's sentimental, pandering and psychologically anorexic.
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20
Washington Post Rita Kempley
Smits can't wrench free of this tangle of cliches.
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20
Dallas Observer M. V. Moorhead
Predictable and conventional and unadventurous. It can't really be defended, except that it's comfortably enjoyable.
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20
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
The film is a TKO before it even had a chance to get off a decent hook.
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20
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
The labored storytelling in this movie about displaced ambition diminishes the impact of the powerful performances.
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20
The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
In films, as in the ring, heart and will without exceptional talent don't produce winners.
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10
LA Weekly John Patterson
It's outclassed by the memory of just about every prizefighting flick you've ever seen.
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10
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Contrived and contrived sloppily, this self-adoring soap even manages to make its all-Hispanic cast seem unconvincing -- except for Seda.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Fatima C. gave it a 10:
This movie was amazing. Sonny and Jonny were the sexiest in the movie.

Jennifer S. gave it a 10:
I thought this movie was an excellent film and never had a boring part.

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