Chuck

An engaging, well-acted, down-to-earth, factually inspired, star-studded (Naomi Watts, Ron Perlman, Jim Gaffigan, and Michael Rappaport), 101-minute biographical film that chronicles the tumultuous life and career of womanizing, egotistical, poem-writing, New Jersey heavyweight boxer Charles "Chuck" Wepner (Liev Schreiber) whose claim to fame was sparring for fifteen rounds on March 23, 1975, with Mohammed Ali in Cleveland and Sylvester Stallone (Morgan Spector) basing his Oscar-winning film Rocky on his career, but then his life takes a nosedive when his fed-up wife (Elizabeth Moss) files for divorce, he becomes estranged from his daughter (Sadie Sink), and eventually spends 26 months in prison when he is busted for cocaine possession,
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