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Against the Ropes is a 2004 American sports drama film directed by Charles S. Dutton and starring Meg Ryan and Omar Epps. The story is a fictionalized account of boxing manager Jackie Kallen, the first woman to achieve success in the sport. Kallen has a bit part in the film playing a reporter. The film was shot primarily at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio and Hamilton, Ontario at the Copps Coliseum.
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*Against the Ropes* is a particularly frustrating specimen of early-2000s cinematic biopic failure, a film that manages to be both insultingly formulaic and profoundly wasteful of its promising subject matter. The picture is guilty of the cardinal sin of the genre: where it should have been ‘based’ on the remarkable life of pioneering boxing manager Jackie Kallen, it settles for being merely ‘inspired by’, a euphemi…More
