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Directed by | Stephen Merchant |
Written by | Stephen Merchant |
Based on | The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family by Max Fisher |
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Cinematography | Remi Adefarasin |
Edited by | Nancy Richardson |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $11 million[1] |
Box office | $41.5 million[2][3] |
Fighting with My Family is a 2019 biographical sports comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephen Merchant. Based on the 2012 documentary The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family by Max Fisher, it depicts the career of English professional wrestler Paige as she makes her way to WWE, while also following her brother Zak Zodiac, as he struggles with his failure to achieve similar success. Florence Pugh and Jack Lowden star as Paige and Zodiac respectively, alongside Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Vince Vaughn, and Dwayne Johnson, with the latter also acting as producer.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 28 January 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on 14 February 2019. It received positive reviews from critics, particularly for Merchant's directing and the performances of Pugh and Vaughn. The film grossed $41.5 million worldwide.
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