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Product Description: Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn an ex-champion boxer who was KO'd by booze and gambling. When the wealthy estranged mother of Flynn's young son begins trying to lure the boy away from him Flynn must return to the ring to provide for his child.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569523326 Amazon.com: A young Rick Schroder makes his cute-as-all-get-out film debut in this 1979 tearjerker from director Franco Zeffirelli. Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, a former champion boxer now given to drinking, gambling, and raising his son T.J. (Schroder, billed here as Ricky) as best he can. The ups and downs of the devoted codependent pair might be enough movie on their own, but soon enough Annie (Faye Dunaway) shows up and displays a strangely protective interest in T.J. Though the plot jumps around too much to quite hold together, The Champ is certainly affecting, and all three leads take the film so earnestly that somehow it works. Voight is believable both as a boxer and as a well-intentioned screwup of a dad, and Schroder is a fine young actor (and irresistibly adorable). Special DVD features include audio commentary from Jon Voight and Rick Schroder and the documentary Behind the Scenes with the Champ. --Ali Davis Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-08-14
NO WHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL!
Well, I know a lot of people like this film, but I have to tell it like it is!......it's not a very good remake at all! Schroder may be adorable, but he is way out of his league going up against Jackie Cooper and although the rest of the cast are top notch, this film feels like a bad TV movie! The first problem is Schroder is too young for the role to be taken for more than sympathy and it's no more than a manipulative trick. I'm not saying Schroder didn't do a fine job, but it's easy to feel sorry for such a little tike crying over his fallen hero who is also his father! If you like the story, watch the original, it's infinitely better than this Hollywood mediocre melodrama. Rating: 
Date: 2007-09-02
THE CHAMP
I saw this movie in 1979 twice actually. It will go into my "feel good"
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Date: 2007-04-10
The Champ
When I seen The Champ was finally available to buy, I was besides myself with excitement. For I remember every heartbreaking scene from when I used to watch it, over and over again, when I was just a kid. The thrill of watching this film is still with me, 10 years later.
There are no words I can use to articulate quite how wonderful The Champ is. Containing one of, if not thee, greatest child actor performances, from Ricki Schroder. No human being has loved another human being, as much as this kid loves The Champ. The Champ being the character of Billy (Jon Voight), down on his luck, ex champion fighter and current gambler and wanderer, father to little JD (Schroder).
When I was nine, ten, eleven years-old this film reduced me to a distraught state of mind, literally. Heartbreaking, tender, thoughtful, enchanting, it still breaks my heart today.
Warning; The Champ contains the most heart wrenching and deeply painful scene in movie history!!... Rating: 
Date: 2007-03-15
THE CHAMP
THIS IS ONE GOOOOOOD DVD. IT MAKES YOU LAUGH AND THEN LEAVES YOU CRYING. IT WAS DELIVERED IN GOOD TIME. AND IN GREAT CONDITION. Rating:
Date: 2006-11-07
Great remake of a classic!
This film really shines as a great inspirational story for any family. The performances are really what drives this movie. Everyone is in top-notch form (Voight, Dunaway) and Ricky Shroder delivers a break-through job that should have been nominated for an Oscar. Here is a bit of trivia: Apparently Shroder was having a difficult time being able to cry on camera. La Dunaway, always being the true professional that she is, asked the director to give her a few moments alone with the boy. In order to help Ricky prep for his emotional finale to seeing his Champ pass away, Faye grabbed hold of Shroder's baby testicles with her thumb and forefinger and pinched as hard as she could. Just as soon as Ricky yelped out in terrible pain and the tears began to run like a sink faucet, Dunaway whispers in his ear "do the scene" and the director yells "Roll!" That Faye...always helping her fellow actors to give the best performance possible! |
