Moscow on the Hudson meets Rocky and The Karate Kid. It's two against one, and no chance. Klaus Maria Brandauer (a good actor, in an I-want-to-be-a-star-too sort of role) is the former Soviet middleweight champion, now ignominiously exiled in America as a "dishwasher, drunk, parasite, bum," who undertakes to train two promising young Brooklyn streetfighters, one white, one black, to fight the touring Soviets. The minutiae of the actual training are absorbing and convincing; the larger particulars of big-time athletic competition are very much not. With Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes, and Angela Molina; directed by Joe Roth. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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