A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 5 nominations
Dwayne Johnson
- Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
- (as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson)
Tori Ellen Ross
- Young Saraya
- (as Tori Ross)
Elroy Powell
- Union Jack
- (as Elroy 'Spoonface' Powell)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhile the film portrays the NXT crowd as somewhat against Paige, there were actually a lot of people who cheered her and recognized her from her family's independent wrestling promotion.
- GoofsPaige is seen as a young girl holding a homemade cardboard version of the WWE Divas title, however this title wasn't introduced until 2008, by which time Paige was 16.
- Quotes
Julia Knight: Dick me dead, and bury me pregnant.
- Crazy creditsThe scenes over the end credits come from the 2012 UK Channel 4 documentary 'The Wrestlers: Fighting With My Family'. This is supposedly the documentary The Rock saw that got him interested in producing a film about Paige's story.
- Alternate versionsIn order to obtain a PG-13 rating in the US, some swearing was edited out of the film. The Blu-ray included an R-rated 'director's cut' which restores the edits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Film Brain Podcast: Wrestling with "Fighting with My Family" (2019)
- SoundtracksElectrifying
Written by Jim Johnston (as James Alan Johnston)
Performed by Jim Johnston
Licensed courtesy of WWE, Inc.
Featured review
This is a very British working class comedy which centres around a wrestling mad family and their dreams of stardom. Its based on a true story and roughly around a documentary of the family made recently. At the helm is one of the writers of The Office, the superior UK version not the US remake. Also on board are a few American actors and Nick Frost from Spaced.
The tone of the movie is something like the commitments or Full Monty, you may need to be British to get some of the humour. Fortunately not all movies are made with the states in mind.
It is very funny however some of the language and scenes of violence may not make it suitable for smaller kids.
Also I have no interest or knowledge of wrestling but that didnt detract from the enjoyment of the movie.
This is not a mega-bucks The Rock vehicle, its a low key small budget UK flick with no real surprises but a few laughs along the way.
Its quite enjoyable.
Also the last thing, the reviewer know as "thebricks" used the final section of his review to call the UK a dump and suggest the people here just drink and fight which is highly offensive to us in the UK.
The fact that despite it being flagged twice for being offensive and off topic shows the mods do not seem to care about xenophobia. That being the case then I reckon the US is a dump full of obese low IQ xenophobes who don't understand anything outside of their own trailer park. This movie is not for them.
- torrascotia
- Feb 27, 2019
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Luchando con mi familia
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $11,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $22,958,886
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $138,780
- Feb 17, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $41,503,392
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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