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Genre Drama
Format Blu-ray, Widescreen
Contributor Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Anthony Hall, Bennett Miller, Guy Boyd, Lee Perkins, Anthony Bregman, Brett Rice, Roger Callard, Megan Ellison, Mark Ruffalo, Samara Lee, Sienna Miller, Jon Kilik, Vanessa Redgrave, Annapurna Pictures; Fair Hill, LLC; Likely Story; Media Rights Capital See more
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Runtime 2 hours and 14 minutes
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Based on true events, "Foxcatcher" tells the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire (Steve Carell) and two champion wrestlers (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo). Directed by Academy Award nominee Bennett Miller (2005, Best Director, "Capote") it is a rich and moving story of brotherly love, misguided loyalty, and the corruption and emotional bankruptcy that can accompany great power and wealth.

Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Makeup

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  • Digital Copy Expiration Date ‏ : ‎ December 31, 2018
  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ CTR43212BR
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Bennett Miller
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 14 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ March 3, 2015
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Hall
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Anthony Bregman, Megan Ellison, Bennett Miller, Jon Kilik
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00QK4ANEI
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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PiNK
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the watch
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2023
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I loved this movie. Definitely shows that Steve Carell can play very different characters. Channing Tatum did a great job in his role and so did Mark Ruffalo. Ive admit I have watched this more than a few times. Worth it!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Slow-burning, cerebral character study - not for those with a short attention span
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2015
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FOXCATCHER is a film that is easier to admire than to love, and I mean that in the best way possible. While the slow and deliberate pacing will put a lot of people off, its disturbing subject matter, psychological depth and outstanding performances make it fascinating, if not riveting. For those unaware of what the story is about (like I was), the film mostly revolves around Mark and David Schultz, two Olympic gold medal-winning wrestlers who become involved with eccentric millionaire (billionaire?) John Du Pont, specifically in preparation for the 1988 World Championship and Seoul Olympics. But wrestling is just the conduit for a deep character study of people who looked to overcome personal weakness by achieving greatness. It's really hard to say who gives the best performance out of the three leads because all of them do so well. Mark Ruffalo (who plays Dave Schultz) usually does well, and this is no exception. Steve Carell was barely recognizable as the eccentric Du Pont, greatly aided by prosthetics in his physical transformation, but also quite different in the way he spoke and carried himself compared with what roles he usually plays. I suppose the biggest surprise of them all is Channing Tatum (playing Mark Schultz) who manages to hold his own against these other two acting greats. Although he didn't have a whole lot of dialogue (and really, the film as a whole doesn't), the physicality he brought to the role was incredible in its own right. As for the wrestling scenes, they were shot well, if unspectacular. Basically they did what they needed to do for the narrative, i.e., serve as guideposts so that one didn't get lost in the pacing (and also because they were factual). What interested me the most, though, was the curious relationship that develops between John Du Pont and Mark Schultz. Du Pont takes Mark under his wing, provides him with living quarters, a training facility, and pays him, yet his status as the team coach (and quite a rich one at that) makes it where the relationship is rather one-sided. In real life, John Du Pont was the black sheep of his family and a very lonely man, and taking on Mark Schultz was a way for him to indulge in his interests and to have a friend. Now, as interesting as I find true crime, there usually has to be some stylistic choice or a scene or two which get to me in an emotional way, and this film has that as well. Both of these scenes are dialogue-free and are scored using Arvo Part's "Fur Alina," a hauntingly minimal piano piece which I recently discovered. To me, these scenes (which I won't spoil) perfectly capture the film's melancholy tone. And in general, the score is rather tasteful. Often, the sound design will completely take a back seat and certain scenes will play out free of dialogue with a sort of humming that brings a subtle intensity and a growing sense of dread. Overall, FOXCATCHER is an excellent, dark character study that features some great performances and an ending that will shock you even if you see it coming. Highly recommended, as long you have a good attention span.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't let the wrestling theme scare you...this is a great movie about Madness, Despair, Dreams, Betrayal and Murder!
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2015
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I have rented this and loved it so much I purchased it for my permanent collection. The story is true and it's engaging. Steve Carell is amazing in it...many times I do not recognize him in this film as Steve Carell at all - his voice, posture, looks and attitude are entirely a work of art. He is the consummate actor in this role. He is DuPont! Channing Tatum pretty much plays a typical dumb athlete looking for dreams of glory (stereotype) and Ruffalo plays his brother who has to be more responsible because he has a family, but they wrestle together and are World Champions from the Olympics. Where the story is shocking is that these 2 World Champs have not made the millions and got the fame that other Olympians have benefited after becoming Champs, and are made vulnerable as a result of still trying to prove themselves. Enter millionaire DuPont, who also has a dream to have a TEAM of Champion Wrestlers for the next Olympics. All of this is based on DuPont's expertise, which has been bought and paid for by himself, as no other authority recognizes him. You wonder during the whole movie if he is for real or just a crazy man getting off on telling this superior athletes to do whatever he wants them to do. Don't want to spoil it for you because this movie is a keeper...permanent movie collection! Steve Carell deserves an Oscar for this performance...and he is sickenly sick and twisted in it. The end is fact, the story is based on fact, and at the end there are many deaths of the body and soul. Great watch!
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Shirlyn Gioe
3.0 out of 5 stars Left out important parts of the story.
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023
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While Steve Carell played an excellent part, the story was not complete. At the time I lived about a mile from Foxcatcher and there were roadblocks up and helicopters for days while DuPont was holed up in his house.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing and powerful film.
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2015
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This was one of the most viscerally disturbing movies I have ever watched. If it didn't happened it would be too strange a story to make into a film. But it did happen. And you realize that you are watching a depiction of actual madness, not something fictional, leading up to an actual murder. That this is a real story makes it incredibly uncomfortable to watch. It was jaw-dropping at times. Carell captures Du Pont perfectly, and what there is to capture is truly insane. The acting is excellent and the film is very well made.

Yet while a deeply troubling exploration of madness, the movie is also a moving story of athletic dedication. Wrestling is among the purest Olympic sports there is and the dedication it requires is extraordinary. The story of John Du Pont's insanity plays out in a circumstance where Olympic caliber athletes were not supported and had few other places to turn. There is a sense of desperation that results in these athletes getting trapped with a madman, not having a means of easy escape. It adds to the tension and sorrow as they constantly have to humor a very disturbed man and a ticking timebomb. They are caged with him.

This film is also a nice tribute to David Schultz, one of the greatest athletes the United States ever produced who would have been our Olympic wrestling coach today in all likelihood. What made this movie so powerful to me is how a story of something horrific, Du Pont's insanity, was told in the context of something truly beautiful, the pure love of sport. How the one is so intertwined with the other here is what makes it tragic and disturbing, and yet so sublime.
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RICCARDO FELICI
5.0 out of 5 stars Un film che merita ampia considerazione
Reviewed in Italy on August 12, 2017
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Blu ray di ottima fattura. Il film è senza dubbio emozionante nella sua drammaticità; le interpretazioni sono notevoli, tanto per Steve Carell quanto per Channing Tatum e Mark Ruffalo. Una storia amara e cupa sul denaro e sulla follia di un uomo (John Du Pont) solo e frustrato da un rapporto morboso e distorto con la propria madre e un ritratto di due campioni olimpici (Dave e Mark Schultz) trascurati dal proprio paese e bisognosi di denaro e di certezze sociali, due uomini fragili che finiranno vittime degli eventi. Da non perdere per tutti i cinefili appassionati al genere drammatico.
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Conrad Van Orton
5.0 out of 5 stars Foxcatcher
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2017
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Foxcatcher is an excellent piece of work! Steve Carell has a career-best performance as John DuPont, a very unique and eccentric figure who tries to build a wrestling empire. Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum play his star wrestlers; they are both very good as well.

Bennett Miller does a great job directing. The majority of the movie centers on the relationships between DuPont and his wrestlers. Thanks to Miller and Carell especially, the journey is constantly unsettling and fascinating. I can't vouch for much of the movie's accuracy in regards to the finer details one way or the other, but I do respect that in terms of one major plot point, they stuck to the truth, when it had to be tempting as all hell to tweak it (if not tempting for Miller, then tempting for someone else in the food chain) because it is profoundly anti-Hollywood.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India on February 24, 2016
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5.0 out of 5 stars Der Ringer und sein Sponsor...
Reviewed in Germany on July 1, 2015
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Regisseur Bennett Miller scheint ein Faible für Sonderlinge (Capote, 2005) und für Sportdramen (Moneyball, 2011) zu haben. Für seinen neuen Film "Foxcatcher" konnte er sogar beide Vorlieben miteinander verbinden und war damit so erfolgreich, dass er seine 2. Oscarnominierung als bester Regisseur einheimsen konnte. Da mich "Ringen" nicht sonderlich interessiert, habe ich auch nicht so viel von seinem Film erwartet, ich habe aber auf einen gut inszenierten Sportfilm in Stil von "The Fighter" von David O'Russell oder "Warrior" von Gavin O'Connor, zumal beide Filme ebenfalls wie "Foxcatcher" nicht nur themenverwandt sind, sondern ebenfalls dank guter Machart einige Oscar-Nominierungen erhielten.

Doch "Foxcatcher" ist sogar ein bisschen mehr. Der Film fängt bedrückend mit einer alten Archivaufnahme von einer Fuchsjagd an. Dort werden die Hunde schon vorbereitet den Fuchs zu jagen. Eine Überzahl von Verfolgern, nicht nur die dressierten Hunde, sondern auch die Menschen auf ihren Pferden, die am Ende in aller Regel den Verfolgten besiegt und getötet haben. Ein mulmiges Gefühl gleich zu Anfang, diese Stimmung soll sich aber so in "Foxcatcher" fortsetzen. Bennett Miller inszenierte - ähnlich schon wie in "Capote" - einen auf Tatsachen beruhenden Fall, die schicksalhafte Verquickung des exzentrischen Millionärs und Sportmäzen John E. Du Pont (Steve Carell) mit den beiden erfolgreichen Ringern Mark (Channing Tatum) und David Schultz (Mark Ruffalo). Beide Brüder holten bei den Olympischen Spielen in Los Angeles 1984 die begehrte Goldmedaille. Trotz dieser grandiosen Leistung sieht sich der jüngere Mark aber immer als im Schatten seines älteren Bruders David stehen, der bereits mit Nancy (Sienna Miller) verheiratet ist und zwei Kinder hat. Eines Tages nimmt der reiche John E. du Pont Kontakt mit dem wenig selbstsicheren Mark auf und lädt ihn auf sein Anwesen in Pennsylvania ein. Dort hat er die "Foxcatcher Farm" aufgebaut, ein Trainingszentrum für Ringer. Sehr zum Leidwesen seiner Mutter (Vanessa Redgrave), die die Kämpfe der Ringer als nicht standesgemäß für ihre Schicht erarchtet. Deren ganze Liebe gilt der Dressur ihrer Pferden.

Die Familie Du Pont ist eine gewaltige Dynastie, die mit Industriebetrieben ein unermessliches Vermögen anhäufen konnte. Sie kann auf eines der ältesten und renommiertesten Vermächtnisse der amerikanischen Geschichte verweisen. Du Pont, ein etwas sonderbarer Einzelgänger mit sehr langer Nase, bittet Mark, Mitglied seines Teams zu werden und für die kommenden Weltmeisterschaften und die nächsten Olympischen Spiele 1988 in Seoul zu trainieren. Du Pont möchte auch David in sein Team holen. Dieser lehnt jedoch zuerst Du Ponts Ansinnen und dessen lukrative Angebote mit dem Verweis ab, da er seiner Frau und den beiden Kindern einen Umzug nicht zumuten möchte. Mark sagt zu, denn er möchte aus seinen einfachen Verhältnissen ausbrechen und aus seiner Wohnung, einer kargen Baracke. Bisher ging dieser herausragende Sportler im Alltag eher schwerfällig durchs Leben. Die Trainingsbedingungen mit seinem Brüder als Sparringspartner waren auch alles andere als optimal. Plötzlich eröffnet sich da ein Leben in Luxus mit besten Trainingsmöglichkeiten. Und Du Pont gelingt es aber zuerst einmal den unsicheren Mark, der selbst ein herausragener Ringer ist, mental aufzubauen, doch der neue Gönner hat auch sehr geheimnisvolle, versteckte Ecken. Zwei traurige Gestalten finden zwar zueinander, doch von Anfang an wirkt die Stimmung am Anwesen latent bedrohlich. John sucht in den unmöglichsten Momenten immer wieder Marks Nähe. John gesteht Mark, dass er sein erster wahrer Freund sei. Mark ist geschmeichelt, er wirkt wie ein großes Kind, dessen Ziel der beste Ringer der Welt nun greifbar nahe erscheint.

Bald bemerkt der Zuschauer auch ein starke unterschwellige sexuelle Spannung. Vermutlich auch eine Befreiung gegen seine domineirende Mutter. Als diese im Rollstuhl überraschend in der Sporthalle auftaucht, wird John plötzlich im Ringen mehr als aktiv und demonstriert die Nähe und auch Ünterlegenheit gegen seinen jüngeren Sparringspartner. Die Weichen für eine Katastrophe sind gestellt, die Bezeihung zwischen Schützling und Gönner immer gespannter....und mündet in eine grausame Katastrophe, die an einem Wintertag des Jahres 1996 wie ein Vorschlaghammer auf die Beteiligten trifft. Damit ist "Foxcatcher" einer der düstersten Filme der letzten zeit. Ich kannte die Geschichte nicht, aber sie beruht auf wahren Begegenheiten und dank der drei grandiosen Schauspieler wird die Geschichte atmosphärisch dicht augerollt. Steve Carell erhielt zu Recht eine Oscarnominierung und am Ende des Films fragt man sich für einen Moment warum nicht er gewinnen konnte. Das was er hier als Leistung abliefert ist einfach atemberaubend. Und Channing Tatum spielt seine Rolle auch auf höchstem Niveau glaubwürdig - er findet gekonnt in den Gesten diesen Widerspruch zwischen dem Äusseren als athletischem Sportler und dem Inneren mit quälenden Selbstzweifeln und großer Ich-Schwäche. Er bleibt auch unter den Figuren des Films ein weiterer Geheimnisvoller. Mark Ruffalo als Bruder David wurde genauso wie Carell nominiert. In der Kategorie "Best supporting actor" verlor er aber gegen J.K. Simmons in "Whiplash".
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5.0 out of 5 stars Here is Johnny !
Reviewed in France on May 27, 2015
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LE BLU-RAY Une splendeur... Pour qui aime la bonne vieille péloche 35mm. Une gestion du grain admirable et une patine argentique que l'on savoure de la première à la dernière image. Un niveau de détail qui profite à cette dentelle de HD. La photographie "dans les limbes et la grisaille" et ses teintes délavées sont restituées à la perfection sur ce Blu-ray de compétition. Dans le genre image "avec de la matière" c'est un top démo.
LE FILM : L'American Dream, sur le ring et le divan.
L'histoire vraie de deux frères champions de lutte, Dave et Mark Schultz, enrôlés dans le team Foxcatcher. L'équipe de John du Pont, un milliardaire mégalomane. D'abord étrange, cette relation devient rapidement menaçante...
Étrange, ce mot vient immédiatement à l'esprit en entrant dans ce film à l'atmosphère totalement hypnotique. Steve Carell, Channing Tatum et Mark Ruffalo se fondent corps et âmes dans leurs rôles. Trois prestations magistrales. À l'image de la réalisation et du montage, leurs interprétations jouent régulièrement sur l'ellipse et la nuance. Tous semblent parfois s'effacer dans les limbes de l'univers désincarné du milliardaire. Portraits d'une amérique malade.
Sous la réussite insolente de John du Pont l'obsession et la névrose gouvernent. Une folie immédiatement perceptible derrière le visage impassible de Steve Carrel. L'acteur jouant à merveille de son "faux-visage". Des prothèses qui le rendent méconnaissable et nourrissent cette hallucinante interprétation. Un artifice qui profite pleinement au portrait de cet être double et paradoxal, capable de vanter les valeurs de courage et d'endurance d'une"Amérique Triomphante"dont il voudrait être l'emblème et n'hésitant pas à fournir son champion en cocaïne...
Son champion c'est Channing Tatum. Le bellâtre de Magic Mike et le John McLane new-age de White House Down, ici mâchoire en avant et regard buté, est saisissant. Lutteur surdoué mais enfant en mal de reconnaissance, ayant grandit sous l'aile protectrice de son grand frère. Une fragilité qui explique sa docilité face au coach et mentor John du Pont.
Troisième personnage charnière : Dave. Le grand frère de Mark. Incarné par un Mark Ruffalo totalement investi. Ayant construit son personnage autour d'une silhouette et d'une gestuelle quasi-primitive. À l'image de ce personnage entier, totalement fidèle à son frère et imperméable au manipulations du coach. Il devient le témoin et l'arbitre d'un match sans issue. Une oppression à laquelle personne n'échappe, John du Pont cherchant lui même à capter désespérément l'attention de sa mère. Prestation fugitive mais inoubliable de Vanessa Redgrave.
La réalisation de bennett Miller n'entrave jamais le jeu des acteurs. Une sobriété qui signait déjà ses deux précédentes réalisations, Truman Capote et Le Stratège. La maitrise du cadre, souvent fixe et sans effets, soutien le propos en permanence. Une mise en image totalement maitrisée et baignée par la photographie crépusculaire de Greig Fraser ( Zero Dark Thirty) Un travail sur la lumière et le cadre qui instaure d'emblée ce lourd climat d'oppression psychologique.
Terrible histoire de manipulation et d'aliénation, Foxcatcher, torpille ainsi en permanence l'idéal du rêve américain en construisant son récit autour d'un mariage raté. Rencontre illusoire du monde d'en haut à celui d'en bas. La perversité de l'homme de pouvoir souillant la rude solidarité qui liait depuis toujours les deux frères. Cette obsession du modèle gouverne chacun. Une société ou l'échec devient alors une notion totalement ingérable.
Avec Foxcatcher, le réalisateur Bennett Miller délivre ici son film le plus fascinant et le plus déroutant. Une oeuvre sombre mature et profonde, au bord de l'abîme. Un féroce détournement de tous les codes du "film de sport". Ténébreuse psychanalyse d'un fantasme increvable. Celui de ses "success story" qui font rêver et nourrissent l'image même de l'Amérique.

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