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Posted on February 22, 2019 by Rob Huddleston
Fighting With My Family, the new biopic about professional wrestling, opens in theaters this weekend. Should you take the kids or hire a sitter? Read on to find out.
1. What is it about?
This based-on-true-events movie follows the rise of professional wrestler Paige, who, at the age of 21 became the youngest woman to win the WWE Diva Championship. The movie follows her upbringing in a wrestling-obsessed working class family in England, her introduction and training to become a WWE wrestler, and the struggles of a young woman who feels like an outsider dealing with, well, life.
2. How accurate is it?
I’ll start out here by admitting that the sequences of wrestling in the movie are far and away the most wrestling I’ve ever watched. I’d never heard of Paige before last night. So, in order to answer this question, I read her biography on Wikipedia. From that, I can say that the broad outlines of the movie stick closely to her life story, but, as with all biopics, the movie takes quite a few liberties on the details, compressing a lot of the story along the way.
3. Who is in movie?
