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Originally Posted by non sequitur
One of the big criticisms about the movie is the way in which Max Baer was portrayed. In real life, Max Baer was devastated when one of his opponents -- Frankie Campbell -- died as a result of injuries sustained in a fight. He stopped fighting for a while and when he came back he had lost a lot of his edge. He also donated the purses of several of his succeeding fights to Campbell's family and ultimately put Campbell's children through college. Max Baer wasn't quite the monster that the movie portrayed.
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Interesting.
A did-not-know.
Otherwise, it was a great movie. I was very touched when he both took assistance money, but more touched when he paid it back. That is something you would never see today, unless there were grandstanding and much ado. Didn't Whoopee Goldberg have to go on assistance?