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Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
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Contemporary, unpretentious, grave and classical in form.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- tmdb28039023on TMDB · Sep 20222/10
A very good movie could be made with Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Michael Rooker, Wes Studi and Peter Falk; Undisputed is not that movie, and the fault lies not in its stars, but in writer/producer/director Walter Hill. This is unfortunate because the film initially appears to be smarter than the average prison movie. Instead of the usual Force Prized Fights/Involuntary Battles to the Death wherein a Condemned Contestant goes through a Tournament Arc in order to Win His Freedom, we get a state-sanctioned, inter-prison boxing program. Sadly, Undisputed manages to avoid all the above-mentioned clichés only to succumb to the The Thunderdome. In lieu of a ring with ropes, the bouts take place in a big-ass, roofless cage with barbed wire atop its walls — but why? Why go to the trouble of establishing the lawfulness of the premise only to make the actual thing look like a Texas Death Match? Anyway, disgraced heavyweight champion George 'The Iceman' Chambers (Rhames) is convicted of rape, sentenced to 6-8 years, and sent to Sweetwater maximum security prison in California. Chambers asks his cellmate Mingo (Studi) why he’s there. Mingo replies that «it's not considered polite to ask why we'
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Cast
- Wesley SnipesMonroe Hutchen
- Ving RhamesGeorge 'Iceman' Chambers
- Peter FalkMendy Ripstein
- Michael RookerA.J. Mercker
- Jon SedaJesus 'Chuy' Campos
- Wes StudiMingo Pace
- Fisher StevensJames 'Ratbag' Kroycek
- Dayton CallieYank Lewis
- Amy AquinoDarlene Early
- Johnny WilliamsAl
Crew
- Walter HillDirector
- David GilerWriter
- Walter HillWriter
- Lloyd Ahern IIDirector of Photography
- Stanley ClarkeOriginal Music Composer
- Freeman A. DaviesEditor
- Phil NordenEditor
- Walter HillProducer
- Brad KrevoyProducer
- Andrew SugermanProducer
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