Director Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher is garnering plenty of buzz for its intensity, as well as a trio of acclaimed performances from Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, and especially Steve Carell. Based on actual events, the film tells the story of an eccentric millionaire (Carell) who sets up a state-of-the-art coaching facility to prepare a team for the 1988 Olympics. For Mark Schultz (Tatum), the opportunity to climb the ladder to becoming a world-class athlete is the culmination of everything he’s ever dreamed of – but the road to that dream is fraught with perilous and tragic consequences. Check out the newest Foxcatcher trailer below, courtesy of Yahoo.
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Foxcatcher opens on November 14.
FOXCATCHER is a psychological drama directed by Academy Award nominee Bennett Miller (MONEYBALL) and starring Golden Globe winner Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo, Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave and Sienna Miller. The film was written by E. Max Frye and Academy Award nominee Dan Futterman. FOXCATCHER tells the story of Olympic Gold Medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Tatum), who sees a way out from the shadow of his more celebrated wrestling brother Dave (Ruffalo) and a life of poverty when he is summoned by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont (Carell) to move onto his estate and train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Desperate to gain the respect of his disapproving mother, du Pont begins “coaching” a world-class athletic team and, in the process, lures Mark into dangerous habits, breaks his confidence and drives him into a self-destructive spiral. Based on actual events, FOXCATCHER is a gripping and profoundly American story of fragile men who pinned their hopes for love and redemption on a desperate obsession for greatness that was to end in tragedy.
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