- Drama
- 103 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes62%Metacritic53IMDb6.5
Champion. Hero. Legend. Cheat.
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and spare.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Renoon TMDB · May 20166.5/10
> What would you choose to do if you get a second chance in your life. I think it came at the right time. The recent report says there are lots of athletes around the world from the different sports failed their doping tests. But this story sets around the 15 years ago, which was based on the real sportsperson's life story. Lance Armstrong, a cyclist from the Texas and his record breaking back to back wins at the 'The Tour de France'. The film narrates a tale that what he chose to do with the second chance of his life. A very interesting biopic, but kind of confusing over what kind of revelation the film is. I mean whether inspiring to fight back the disease, especially what he contributed to the poor and orphan cancer patients, or cheating the game to become a fame. So what I think is it has the both positives and negatives. I liked the balanced screenplay, that is very smart for a controversial person like this. It's like a modern 'Robinhood' tale. But here, he's not stealing from the rich, instead he cheats the game. Those tricks were unbelievable. That's not the right thing to do, but that's what he's good at. Ben Foster was amazing, I'd seen him doing lots of supporting roles,
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Cast
- Ben FosterLance Armstrong
- Chris O'DowdDavid Walsh
- Guillaume CanetDr. Ferrari
- Jesse PlemonsFloyd Landis
- Lee PaceBill Stapleton
- Denis MénochetJohan Bruyneel
- Edward HoggFrankie Andreu
- Dustin HoffmanBob Hamman
- Elaine CassidyBetsy Andreu
- Laura DonnellyEmma O'Reilly
Crew
- Stephen FrearsDirector
- John HodgeScreenplay
- Danny CohenDirector of Photography
- Alex HeffesOriginal Music Composer
- Valerio BonelliEditor
- Tim BevanProducer
- Eric FellnerProducer
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