The Champ tells the story of a little boy named T.J. who is torn between his divorced parents: a loving mother and an alcoholic ex-boxing father who is now working on his come-back in order to give his boy a better future.
December 20 in Havana, Cuba
18 December 1954, Orange, California, USA
July 12, 1921 in Manchester Depot, Iowa, USA
30 August 1906, New York City, New York, USA
13 April 1970, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 September 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
1 December 1924, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
7 May 1950, Bridge City, Texas, USA
26 November 1913, Pueblo, Colorado, USA
3 February 1936, USA
March 14, 1921 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
June 28, 1906 in Greece
29 April 1957, California, USA
30 October 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
December 30, 1917 in Fallbrook, California, USA
January 04, 2005
Pale remake of Wally Berry classic.
February 09, 2006
A pointless update of King Vidor's '30s weepie.
May 09, 2005
The most offputting thing about such canny, tear-stained movies as The Champ is not their naïveté but their unholy sophistication. These movies don't mean to deal with the world as it really is, but as it should be.
April 01, 2007
A three-alarm, three-hanky movie of the highest order, perfect for your kids who don't get to see many truly sad films.
August 21, 2010
Zeffirelli's inferior remake to King Vidor's 1932 classic, starring Jon Voight in the Oscar-winning role that Wallace Beery had originated, is a manipulative tear-jerking melodrama.
August 21, 2003
Seek out the 1931 King Vidor version.
May 24, 2003
Even more of a tear-jerker than the 1931 version of the same story, there is not a dry eye on the screen.
February 13, 2004
I admit it. I cried.
November 11, 2004
Voight is fine as boxer on a comeback, but Ricky Schroeder steals the film. I dare you not to cry!
February 19, 2003
Great performance from Jon Voight and Rick Schroeder
April 01, 2007
The tear-jerking is so determined and persistent that your ducts feel as if they'd been worked over with a catheter.
April 01, 2007
The original film took 85 minutes, this one 121; the extra length has not improved the story.
