The Champ
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Movie Reviews of The Champ
Movie Review: The Champ
Summary: 5 Stars
John Voight played the part to the letter, if you know the racetrack he even had the safety pins on his pant leg.Movie Review: The Champ
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best movies made ever....... GREAT, GREAT, Movie.... If you haven't seen it you need to see it........Movie Review: THE CHAMP
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie in 1979 twice actually. It will go into my "feel good"
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Movie Review: Classic Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I've always loved this movie; I cry at the end every time.
It's a classic!
Movie Review: Schroder and Voigt
Summary: 4 Stars
Found this movie at a local library. I've watched it with and without commentary from Schroder and Voigt. There were a couple things that stood out as "unfinished"...for starters, the package TJ gave to "The Champ" at the beginning of the movie, could've been brought back into the flick at the end...but it wasn't. And what happened with the $2K that The Champ asked Annie for in order to save the horse? Where did it go?
Other than those two things, the movie was fairly good for a movie from the late '70s.
TJ (Rick Schroder):
This was apparently Schroders first movie, and he provided a wonderful performance. There were a couple reviewers who said his character portrayed a child more sophisticated than a normal 8 year old. TJ (his character) HAD to be more mature than a normal 8 year old, he was the only child of a single father who struggled with gambling and alcohol. TJ had to take on more maturity to make up for what The Champ lacked. There are many children in similar situations who also exude more maturity than their peers.
Annie (Faye Dunaway):
The confrontation between The Champ and Annie in the barn after She's a Lady injured herself, was sub-par and confusing. Part of the time Annie is laughing, and it seems that the director didn't catch that or something....because the interaction between the two characters was physically confrontational (with the Champ man-handling her) it seemed sickly un-natural for her character to go from laughing to crying and screaming at him in a split second with no additional action from him between the two vastly different responses.
Finally, The Champ (Jon Voigt):
I confess, I had not seen any of Jon's early work. This movie is the earliest work of his that I've seen. I almost didn't recognize him. I was impressed by the depth he was able to give to his character when, at the end, Annie had come to him in the barn and The Champ became really vulnerable in asking her to "come back, we'll give you a second chance". And at her refusal, immediately the bravado returned.
I was impressed by the interaction between Schroder and Voigt throughout the movie, and it was compounded when listening to the two of them on the commentary throughout the movie. However, I was not impressed by Dunaway's performance as much. She seemed more "mentally off" than the Champ was.
It is definitely a different style movie than those coming out today. For it's time, it was good. For those of us who were children when it was originally released, it will remain timeless. But I am not certain that children today, would find it as relatable.