New This Week: “Fighting”
April 23, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Movies
Fighting comes out in theaters tomorrow. The movie starring Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard forces viewers to take a hard look at the underworld of streetfighting.
When small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) arrives in New York City, he has nothing. He turns to selling counterfeit goods on the streets to try to make a living but his life takes a dramatic change when scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting.
Harvey takes on the role of Shawn’s manager and turns him into a star. Working in the corrupt bare-knuckle circuit, Shawn takes down …read more
