The Champ | | Cast : | Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder | | Director : | Franco Zeffirelli | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 04, 1979 | | DVD Released Date : | July 09, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | tear jerker!!!! | Content
 | been looking for this since i had dvd.if the end of this does not make you misty,your not human. great acting! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | It made me cry.... | Content
| I saw this movie in the theatres as a young boy, and it made me cry then. I then purchased it on DVD two years agao, and guess what....nothing changed. This is a very good movie with a very good child actor. It's very difficult to watch because it is so emotional, but it's great. One of my favorite Jon Voight movies. I recommend buying it, so you can see it again and again. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 09, 2004 | | Summary | I Liked This Movie! | Content
| I watched The Champ on video or HBO sometime in the 1980's and I thought it was a good movie and the acting from Jon Voight and Rick Shroder was great and I highly recommend this movie! I know that this movie was a remake of an older movie starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper but I never saw the old movie but would like to someday because I saw them in Treasure Island which was great so Maybe I can catch their version of The Champ when it's being shown on TCM. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 26, 2003 | | Summary | The one movie that still makes me cry | Content
| The Champ is an astounding motion picture directed by Franco Zeffirelli with outstanding performances by Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and the unbelievably convincing Ricky Schroder. The movie is the best intimate melodramatic tearjerker that I have ever seen. One view of this film will leave you with a lump in your throat and teary eyes, the next viewings will just leave you in plain tears. Yes, its that kind of movie that you'd see more than once and still feel engaged. Jon Voight plays former boxer Billy Flynn who is down on his luck raising his son TJ, played by Schroder, alone after his wife, played by Dunaway, left him and the boy and went on to marry a millionaire after he falls out of his life of boxing, doctor's orders. The movie brings you close to the lives of all three of these characters, you feel their pain, their grief, and their emptiness. Billy has turned to drinking to escape the pain of not being able to return to boxing to support a family. TJ does not know his mother since she left him when he was still an infant, and still sees his deadbeat father as a hero, calling him 'champ'. Faye Dunaway's character can't seem to cope with the fact that her son has grown up believing she is dead and can only take him as a friend after bumping into him at a horserace, the horse that 'champ' bought him was competing in this race. The story begins to unfold when the three characters enter each other's lives again. What's more beautiful about this movie is its musical score. The music is really another character in the film, and is quite breathtaking. Highly Recommended A |
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