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Kids in a cage is one of the best sports films I've seen in some time. It's a world I knew nothing about but it's captured vividly - and fairly - with a lot of care.

The two main characters are MMA fighting kids, one Latina and poor, the other white and wealthy. We think we're along for a ride to find out if they win Nationals, which we are but the director does a great job of showing the pitfalls tor the kids. Their parents are ultimately not just living through them but in some cases the kids become the parents. Of course this isn't unique to this particular youth sport but in MMA the consequences are steep.

By the time the film ended I couldn't stop thinking about where these kids would be in 5 or 10 years.