Steven Spielberg's son steps into the ring for a blood-soaked '70s fever dream.
Against the brutal backdrop of 1970s Hell’s Kitchen, local boxer Danny ‘Boy’ McCoy bids to land one great fight to help him escape a neighborhood being torn apart by a bloodthirsty turf-war between The Westies and the Mob. But poverty, crime, old friendships, loyalty and love threaten to drag McCoy spiraling into darker and more desperate circumstances.
Production
Hell's Kitchen recreation feels lived-in, not costume-party.
Acting
Sawyer Spielberg escapes dad's shadow with bruised-knuckle intensity.
Director
Colin Broderick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Colin Broderick is a memoirist who actually grew up in 1970s Hell's Kitchen; this is basically his childhood with the violence dialed up.
The Westies were a real Irish-American gang so brutal the Italian Mafia called them 'crazy'—they once dissolved a body in acid in a bathtub.
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