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Against the Ropes
Directed by
Charles S. Dutton
PG-13
2004
1h 46m
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5.3
11%
29%
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A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.
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Cast of Against the Ropes
Meg Ryan
Jackie Kallen
Omar Epps
Luther Shaw
Charles S. Dutton
Felix Reynolds
Tony Shalhoub
Sam LaRocca
Tim Daly
Gavin Reese
Joe Cortese
Irving Abel
Kerry Washington
Renee
Sean Bell
Ray Kallen
Dean McDermott
Pete Kallen
Skye McCole Bartusiak
Little Jackie
Juan Carlos Hernández
Pedro Hernandez
Holt McCallany
Dorsett
Tory Kittles
Devon Green
Beau Starr
Corcoran
Jared Durand
Young Crisco
Diego Fuentes
Car Attendant
Angelo Tucci
Rex
Reg Dreger
Lonnie
Arturo Fresolone
Hernandez's Manager
James Jardine
Ring Announcer
Big Daddy Wayne
Stormy
Merwin Mondesir
Street Crony
Doug Lennox
Barrel-Chested Man
Hayley Verlyn
Beauty with LaRocca
Moses Nyarko
Mouketendi ("Africa")
Aidan Devine
Crisco
Joel Harris
Mathias
Michael Rhoades
Mathias' Manager
Bruce Gooch
Pawn Shop Clerk
Arnold Pinnock
Heavyweight
Neven Pajkic
Heavyweight
Adrianne Keshock
Jenny
Dov Tiefenbach
Organic Clerk
Jackie Kallen
Female Reporter
Mike Kraft
Jacobs
John Christopher Terry
USA Today Reporter
Tamara Hickey
Megan the Reporter
Karen Robinson
Kimberly (Insurance)
Noah Dalton Danby
LaRocca Henchman
Rocky Zolnierczyk
Sands Fight Referee
Tracy Waterhouse
Receptionist
Michael Buffer
Ring Announcer
Neil Crone
HBO Commentator
Ray Marsh
Final Fight Referee
Jeff Ironi
Security Guard
Jean Daigle
Montage Promoter
Carlos Varela Jr.
Hernandez's Trainer
Jason Jones
Ticket Guy
Shawn Lawrence
Philadelphia Fight Official
Howard Green
Sands
Julian Scott
Ray Kallen's Sparring Partner
Remo DiCarlo
Buffalo Opponent
Everton McEwan
Luther's Sparring Partner
Eric Reynolds
Hopeful Fighter
Nick Alachiotis
Luther's Trainer
Syd Vanderpool
Luther's Tampa Opponent
Egerton Marcus
Hopeful Fighter
Suchart Yodkerepauprai
Rugged Boxer
Hector Perez
Hernandez's Sparring Partner
Rogue Johnston
Montage Opponent (ss Rogue Johnson)
Paul Lawrie
Montage Opponent
Donovan Boucher
Montage Opponent
Martin Van Zanten
Montage Opponent
Edwin DeLeon
Montage Opponent
Chad Keens-Douglas
Montage Opponent
Michael A. Amos
Montage Opponent
Anthony Ferri
Montage Opponent
Joseph Richardson
Montage Opponent
Everol Carty
Montage Opponent
Derek Bujalski
Montage Opponent
Michael Dion
DJ at Strip Club
Adrian Teodorescu
Referee
Alwin Mascoll
Interviewed Boxer
Peter Wylie
Miami Referee
Dave Dunbar
Philadelphia Referee
Jessica Irvine Drake
Boxer's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Patrick Ezerzer
Boxing Trainer (uncredited)
John Kalbhenn
Referee (uncredited)
Danny Lentz
Police Detective (uncredited)
A.J. Verel
LaRocca Bodyguard (uncredited)
Gene Mack
Kevin Keyes
Against the Ropes Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Ultimately, you've seen it before, and there's no reason to see it again. Let's hope the real Jackie Kallen's life is more inspiring than this.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A miscast Ryan struggles with a Detroit accent and a script that goes nowhere.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
As a boxing movie, Against the Ropes is perfunctory... As a biopic, it's likewise uninspired stuff.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
By the end, everything that was initially serious about the film becomes silly and everything appealing about it turns sour.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
This lethargic, pseudo-feminist biopic is barely a notch above a bad TV movie, with one-dimensional characters, cliché-ridden dialogue and fight scenes that are badly choreographed and edited.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Uninspired tale feels like a made-for-TV movie.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It's an insanely ponderous and almost insulting sequence, stopping the movie cold and forcing the viewer to scratch their head in utter disbelief.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
It's hard to buy this minor melding of Rocky and Erin Brockovich as anything but a punched-up star vehicle for an actress in a slump.
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
What could have been a Working Girl hoot gets mired in redundant assertions of Kallen's feistiness.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Somewhere along the way, I found myself enjoying Against the Ropes, not in spite of my better judgment, but because something in the movie defies the whole notion of better judgment altogether.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
So anemic you should probably order iron supplements with your popcorn, its plot so predictable it makes falling dominoes seem like a white-knuckle thrill ride.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A boilerplate melodrama whose good guys and bad guys are so baldly drawn they could have been conceived by Friz Freleng.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Meanders until it gets to the final third of its running time, and then it catches fire.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
In the class of American boxing movies, it's barely a welterweight.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It offers lackluster fantasy propped up by cliches. Kallen's story deserves better.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Written by Cheryl Edwards, Kallen's story is pumped with artificial sweeteners, hokey inevitabilities, and denaturing oversimplifications.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Still Oscar-less, Ryan obviously sees Jackie as her blue-collar scrapper in the Brockovich-Norma Rae mold. What she delivers is very different -- an unwittingly patronizing Great Blond Hope.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
While Ryan's performance has the proper blend of confidence and cleavage, the movie succeeds only in producing more fight flick cliches than a Rocky movie marathon.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A workmanlike production that's simply too predictable and too preposterous to hold our interest.
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