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Fake It So Real
Directed by
Robert Greene
NR
2012
1h 35m
Documentary
,
Sport
6.6
91%
49%
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Dive head-first into the world of independent pro wrestling as we follow a group in Lincolnton, North Carolina over the week leading up to a big show.
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Cast of Fake It So Real
Gabriel Croft
Himself
Robert Greene
Director / Producer
Susan Bedusa
Producer
Douglas Tirola
Producer
Fake It So Real Ratings & Reviews
Time Out Chicago
Matt Singer
Outsider artists don't expect to be discovered; they just want to share their passion with the world. Greene's film communicates their devotion -- and their desire to hit people on the back with steel chairs.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
What's different is a poignant sense of community that makes for a richer portrait overall.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
"Fake It So Real" filled me with affection for its down-and-out heroes, a group of semi-pro wrestlers in Lincolnton, N.C.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ryan Lattanzio
An engrossing documentary that lends humanity to independent pro wrestling's savage theater of machismo.
Movies.com
John Gholson
You certainly don't have to be a wrestling fan to enjoy its charms; the appeal comes from exploring what's essentially a very strange, very dangerous hobby.
Wall Street Journal
Steve Dollar
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New York Times
Andy Webster
The taunts in the ring may be make-believe, but the slams against the mat are agonizingly genuine in Robert Greene's vivid documentary "Fake It So Real"...
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
These wrestlers have a number of striking similarities which can be boiled down to one true commonality: They all felt like freaks.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Though the matches themselves, with their crude narrative frameworks and stereotypes, may be something of an anticlimax, the film unearths the tough and complex life experiences they distill.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
An entertaining documentary portrait of the barely professional, essentially hobbyist wrestling scene in Lincolnton, North Carolina -- a scene replicated in scores of American communities, where wannabe Rocks battle on YouTube and in tiny veteran centers.
Variety
Robert Koehler
An affectionate portrait of an all-American subculture.
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