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The Smashing Machine
Action, Drama, History
In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically raw portraits of athletes confronting addiction, ambition, and the personal cost of recognition.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, melancholic
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, addiction, fame, intimacy, self-destruction
- Setting
- late twentieth century, competitive fighting circuits and intimate domestic spaces
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