Tyson

Name: Tyson
Genre: Sport, Documentary
Released: April 24, 2009
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Mike Tyson

2009

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: April 24, 2009 | R

Starring: Mike Tyson

Summary: Tyson is acclaimed indie director James Toback's stylistically inventive portrait of a mesmerizing Mike Tyson. Toback allows Tyson to reveal himself without inhibition and with eloquence and a pervasive vulnerability. Through a mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, a
startlingly complex, fully-rounded humanTyson is acclaimed indie director James Toback's stylistically inventive portrait of a mesmerizing Mike Tyson. Toback allows Tyson to reveal himself without inhibition and with eloquence and a pervasive vulnerability. Through a mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, a
startlingly complex, fully-rounded human being emerges. The film ranges from Tyson’s earliest memories of growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing, to his roller coaster ride in the fun house of worldwide fame and fortunes won and lost. It is the story of a legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon, a figure conjuring radical questions of race and class. In its depiction of a man rising from the most debased circumstances to unlimited heights, destroyed by his own hubris, Tyson emerges as a modern day version of classic Greek tragedy. (Sony Classics)… Expand

Director: James Toback

Genre(s): Sport, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Elizabeth Weitzman

The result is an often-anguished monologue built on pride, despair and self-defense. Accuracy aside, Tyson does work hard to analyze his own, clearly complex character. So while we only get half the picture, it makes for consistently compelling viewing. Read full review

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Michael Sragow

What emerges is a fallen warrior's tale: the inside story of a man bloodied and bowed. Read full review

David Edelstein

No filmmaker I know has gotten as close to a professional athlete as James Toback gets to Mike Tyson in his new documentary. Read full review

J.R. Jones

The resulting portrait shows a seriously troubled man whose brutality was bred into him on the punishing streets of Brooklyn and whose modest wisdom seems as hard-won as any title. Tyson's fight career may be over, but his battle with himself has many rounds to go. Read full review

Whitney Borup

If you’re not really interested in Mike Tyson as a boxer and a person, the film doesn't give you much to go on. This is a movie called Tyson and it is about Mike Tyson – and nothing else. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Gives a taste of what it might be like to live inside Mike Tyson's mind. Read full review

Dana Stevens

It's a movie that's thought-provoking without being intelligent and candid without being truthful. The same aesthetic choices that Toback seems convinced will set his documentary apart are also what diminishes its credibility. Read full review

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MikeD

Aug 22, 2009

Excellent documentary on Mike Tyson. Very engaging and will keep you glued to the movie. This movie humanizes a man that has been misunderstood by the public since Day 1.