The Great Fight
3.5
2011
1 hr 21 min
Drama
A disgraced police man is sent to work security at a local high school and ends up training an autistic boy with talents for mixed martial arts.
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- Cast：
- Robert Loggia , Charles Durning , Martin Kove , Joyce DeWitt , Angela Little , Thomas G. Waites , Eric Etebari
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Let's be realistic.
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best movie i've ever seen.
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I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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