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  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary From abject poverty to becoming a ten time boxing world champion and history’s first boxing congressman, international icon Manny Pacquiao is the definition of a Cinderella story. In the Philippines, he first entered the ring as a sixteen year old weighing 98 pounds with the goal of earning money to feed his family. Now, almost twenty ye...

Directed By: Leon Gast

  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 28 m

Manny

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary From abject poverty to becoming a ten time boxing world champion and history’s first boxing congressman, international icon Manny Pacquiao is the definition of a Cinderella story. In the Philippines, he first entered the ring as a sixteen year old weighing 98 pounds with the goal of earning money to feed his family. Now, almost twenty ye...

Directed By: Leon Gast

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50
Jan 23, 2015
Despite having a life story seemingly tailor-made for the big screen, it transforms his potentially fascinating tale into a narrow and borderline fawning hagiography that will no doubt find great favor among his fan base, while inspiring shrugs of indifference from those less invested in his tale.
By Peter Sobczynski FULL REVIEW
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Jan 19, 2015
An informative, if largely deferent, biographical documentary that tritely explains the ascendancy of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.
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40
Jan 22, 2015
The narrative has been fashioned mostly in Mr. Pacquiao’s favor, although there are mentions of overwork, infidelity and gambling. Banal, stentorian narration by Liam Neeson (“Once victory is stolen from you, what are you left with?”) mostly gives the sense that it’s the viewer being carried around the ring.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 22, 2015
As a sizzle reel, Manny feeds off the hype but leaves this man with fascinatingly renaissance tastes and ambitions still naggingly unexplored by the end.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 20, 2015
Though co-directed by Leon Gast, who made the exceptional “Rumble In The Jungle” documentary When We Were Kings, Manny stays entirely on the surface of Pacquiao’s life and of a sport that’s rife with dirty dealing and chicanery.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
30
Jan 21, 2015
Throughout, the complexities of the charismatic fighter's life are only cursorily referenced so that the celebratory tone may not be marred, with Manny ultimately content to treat its subject with kid gloves.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
20
Jan 22, 2015
Only a fool would say it to his face, but eight-time divisional boxing champ Manny (Pacman) Pacquiao has a limp swing as a documentary subject.
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Production Company Wonderspun, Revelin Studios
Release Date Jan 23, 2015
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating PG-13
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Website https://www.facebook.com/MannyPacquiaoMovie
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• 1 Nomination

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