Southpaw (2015)

Gyllenhaal plays a boxing champ from the wrong side of the tracks. He punches hard, gets punched hard, and doesn't give up. He's got a too-goo-to-be-true wife from the same side of the tracks & a cute daughter. But he loses it all in what seems like a matter of days after his wife is killed in a freak accident.

He lives in a shithole, his daughter's in a group home where she tells a friend she "doesn't really know anymore" if he's her father (??), and he's being trained (in a dumpy gym that looks like it smells like butt) by Forrest Whitaker who teaches him to keep his hands up and get out of the way of fists. In just six weeks, he's back on top.

It's basically a dumb Rocky III.

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