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The Cage Fighter

  • 20172017
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
270
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The Cage Fighter (2017)
DocumentaryActionDrama
A blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made to never fight again. Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything to go back into the f... Read allA blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made to never fight again. Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.A blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made to never fight again. Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
270
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    • Jeff Unay
    • David Teague
    • Jeff Unay
  • Stars
    • Vernon Beach
    • Callie Carman
    • Delanee Carman
    • Jeff Unay
    • David Teague
    • Jeff Unay
  • Stars
    • Vernon Beach
    • Callie Carman
    • Delanee Carman
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    • 5User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
    • 71Metascore
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    Jeff Unay and Joe Carman at an event for The Cage Fighter (2017)
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    Callie Carman in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Joe Carman in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Joe Carman in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Joe Carman and Callie Carman in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Norinda Reed in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Joe Carman in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Joe Carman in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Joe Carman and Clayton Hoy in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Joe Carman in The Cage Fighter (2017)
    Joe Carman in The Cage Fighter (2017)

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    Vernon Beach
    • Coach
    Callie Carman
    • Daughter
    Delanee Carman
    • Daughter
    Joe Carman
    • Cage Fighter
    Kira Carman
    • Daughter
    Mia Carman
    • Daughter
    Clayton Hoy
    • Rival
    Norinda Reed
    • Spouse
      • Jeff Unay
      • David Teague
      • Jeff Unay
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    8/10
    This was a brilliant Idea
    It's a reality movie. It's like the Real Cancun, which was the first reality movie or an episode of Hogan knows best.

    A Joe Carman Writes, Directs and produces a film about his life as an aging MMA fighter and how he juggles it with being a family man. It's actually a great set up for a reality TV show for ESPN or something, but instead he releases it as a film.

    The cameras follow Joe and his family around capturing his life but Joe let's the cameras do all the talking and does not have those interviews in dark rooms you see in a bunch of reality shows. I love that, and I think it was brilliant. Doing it that way, It honestly took me awhile before I realized It was not a straight up narrative.

    No wonder the acting was sooooo good, it was not acting. There were these scenes in which Joe is interacting with his parents and his children are having a private discussion about their dad that pound at your heart better than any actor ever could.

    So far the best most exciting movie I've seen in 2018. This unconventional approach cinema wins the fight in my book.
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    • Feb 4, 2018

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      • March 2, 2017 (United States)
      • United States
      • Official site
      • English
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      • Washington, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cinereach
      • Lineage Films
      • The Filmmaker Fund
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