Knuckle

Name: Knuckle
Genre: Biography, Drama, Documentary
Released: December 2, 2011
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 65

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ARC Entertainment (II) | Release Date: December 2, 2011 | R

Summary: An epic 12-year journey into in the world of an Irish Traveller community, Knuckle takes us inside their brutal, secretive and exhilarating bare-knuckle fighting lives. Chronicling a history of violent feuding between rival families, the story focuses on two brothers as they fight for their reputations and the honor of their family name.An epic 12-year journey into in the world of an Irish Traveller community, Knuckle takes us inside their brutal, secretive and exhilarating bare-knuckle fighting lives. Chronicling a history of violent feuding between rival families, the story focuses on two brothers as they fight for their reputations and the honor of their family name. (Arc Entertainment)… Expand

Director: Ian Palmer

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Mike Scott

Jan 5, 2012

With Knuckle, Palmer offers a thorough -- and extraordinarily compelling -- portrait of the Travellers. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

Nov 27, 2011

Chock full of larger-than-life characters, it's an enthralling insight into a raw, bloodied world. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Dec 7, 2011

Knuckle is the real deal, with the strapping, brutally human Traveller clans butting heads with not only one another but with the very future of their subculture's existence. Read full review

Justin Chang

Nov 27, 2011

As anthropology lessons go, Knuckle is strong stuff, and it's easy to accept Palmer's conclusion that the problem he's showing us may well have no solution. Read full review

Stephen Farber

Nov 27, 2011

Palmer keeps his focus tightly on the families, which makes the movie admirably unpretentious but also incomplete. Nevertheless, the picture has a vibrant central character in James McDonagh, the leading fighter in the clan who begins to question the rites of violence. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Dec 7, 2011

It's an involving but frustrating peek into a private culture involved in a self-defeating cycle of violence and mythologizing. Read full review

David Fear

Dec 7, 2011

Palmer's acknowledgement of his own involvement in, and thrill at watching, these events speaks volumes, but simply showing generations of pasty, fat men pounding each other to a pulp shouldn't be mistaken for an in-depth exploration of Gaelic machismo. Read full review

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evanswrath

Feb 25, 2012

Really enjoyed this doc...a good look into the life of a male traveller, makes you wonder why ppl live the way they do!!.
you wudnt wanna mess with any of the hard cases either!!

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