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Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993)
Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.
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Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.
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Genre:Documentary
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In Theaters:2/12/1993
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Runtime:93 minutes
Studio:The Sokolow Company, TriStar Television, Cabin Creek Films
Cast
Barbara Kopple
Director
Mike Tyson
Self (archive footage)
Cus D'Amato
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Don King
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Robin Givens
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Curtis Ratliff
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Tracy Trey Travis
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Louis Farrakhan
Self (archive footage)
Joyce Carol Oates
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Evander Holyfield
Self (archive footage)
Larry Holmes
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James Douglas
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