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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: April 4, 1979 |
Starring:
Arthur Hill, Elisha Cook Jr., Faye Dunaway, Jack Warden, Joan Blondell, Jon Voight, Mary Jo Catlett, Rick Schroder, Stefan Gierasch, Strother Martin
Summary:
A former boxer discovers that his biggest battle of all is going to be with his ex-wife, Annie, who returns after abandoning their young son seven years prior.
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Unfortunately, The Champ does not let well enough alone. It slogs on for about two reels too many, concluding on a note of utterly contrived tragedy that should make just about everyone feel wretchedly deceived. [04 Apr 1979, p.B1]
The Champ is overcalculated to a fault. Like suspense, sentimentality should sneak up on you unexpectedly; when it's poured out like slop in a trough, it kills the appetite. This movie is so busy spilling its own tears that my own seemed quite superfluous. [09 Apr 1979, p.87]
The most offputting thing about such canny, tear-stained movies as The Champ is not their naïveté but their unholy sophistication. These movies don't mean to deal with the world as it really is, but as it should be, a place where there's no pile-up of emotional garbage too big that it can't be washed clean by a good cry.
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Fat and sassless Champ a loser on all counts. [09 Apr 1979]
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