Foxcatcher 2014

     This film is based on true events occurring in 1988.  Mark and Dave Schultz are brothers and both are Olympic Gold Medal winning wrestlers.  They have been there for each other since they were kids and their parents divorced.  Mark receives a call from multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont and he is purposing that the brothers come to his training center.  He will coach, help them train and offer monetary support for them personally and the Olympic Wrestling Team as well.  Dave isn’t sure about this and he feels he needs to stay where he is living now.  His wife and son are happy and would not like to move.  Mark begins to see John as a father figure.  Later, Dave and his family come to live on the du Pont property.

     This is an entirely different role for Steve Carell.  He is wearing a prosthetic nose to make his features more resemble du Pont.  John is more interested in Dave than Mark being involved in this project.  He feels it will be easier to approach Mark first and have him get Dave interested.  Mark is more of a loner with no friends, Dave has made a career as a coach and he has a family.  John has been riding on the coattails of his family’s money and influence all of his life.  He feels entering wrestling as a coach will be something of his own and bring him the attention he wants.  John's mother is against all of this because she thinks wresting is coarse.  I didn’t see the culmination of all these forces coming together to form the ending?  3* (This movie is OK)

134 min, Bio directed by Bennett Miller with Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Michael Hall, Guy Boyd, Brett Rice, Jackson Frazer, Samara Lee, Francis J. Murphy III.

Note:  Imdb 7.1 out of 10, 88% critic 67% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*.

Special Note:  This movie was filmed in Pennsylvania.  Initially, the cast and crew were afraid of Steve Carell as John du Pont and they tried to avoid being with or around him.