Product Details

• Actors: James Marshall, Cuba Gooding Jr., Brian Dennehy, Richard Lexsee, T.E. Russell
• Directors: Rowdy Herrington
• Writers: Djordje Milicevic, Lyle Kessler, Robert Mark Kamen
• Producers: Frank Price, Stephen J. Roth
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: March 17, 1997
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302529719
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,604 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply a great movie, December 19, 2000

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jasenao (Dothan, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gladiator [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Tommy Riley (James Marshall) goes to a different school and is immediately bullied around and threatened by several of the school's students. After getting in a street fight, Pappy Jack (Robert Loggia) notices Tommy's strong and fierce punch and invites him to be a boxer. Tommy was formerly a boxing champion before coming to this school and his record is undefeated. This town is full of gangs and violence, and one day Tommy helps a black boxer named Lincoln (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), and they then have a good friendship. Tommy is now making good money being a boxer and he has some friends, but something just doesn't seem right.

"Gladiator" is an exciting boxing and drama movie. What makes it so great is not only the exciting fights, but the great acting by everybody in the movie, mainly James Marshall, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Tommy's promoter, Jimmy Horn (Brian Dennehy). If you like exciting boxing movies that have a plot or just great movies in general, I recommend getting "Gladiator."

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good fun boxing movie.., August 3, 2002

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Reginald M. Lumagui "green_lantern_2814" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gladiator (DVD)

After seeing some of the reviews, I decided to go ahead and buy this movie as well. I was very pleased and enjoyed the movie. It's nothing serious like the first two Rocky movies, but light hearted action fun. It pretty quick paced so you don't get bored. I'd compare it more to being similar to Rocky IV in terms of pacing. The story is simple enough about a young, white boxer who, through a turn of bad luck, finds himself in the poorhouse and has to box to settle his dad's gambling debts. The acting is believable unlike the recent Star Wars Attack of the Clones fiasco. Cuba Gooding and James Marshall both put in great performances. The boxing, although a little over the top sometimes,is still great to see although I'd like to have seen longer training sequences. The quality of the dvd picture is great as well. What they don't mention on Amazon's techincal data is that the dvd has both a widescreen and standard full format presentation on either side of the disc so you can watch the movie whatever way you want. I'd definitely recommend this disc for the boxing movie enthusiast.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gladiator - Cuba Gooding Jr., & James Marshall, January 18, 2007

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Scott LaBone "JudahScott" (York Haven, Pa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gladiator (DVD)

Excellent Movie. One of my favorite movies that these actors made together.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is great in this movie, no wonder he is a great movie star and James Marshall doesn't get enough credit as an actor, he needs to play more roles like this... they way the filmed this movie was great... old fashion, made you feel you were right there with them.

Cuba Gooding Jr. was an upcoming star at this point, it just was starting out in his carrer... look at him now.

GREAT MOVIE... GET IT.. YOU'LL ENJOY IT.