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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Drama · TV Movie · 2013

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.

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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

“Some Fights Are Bigger Than The Ring”

2013 Drama · TV Movie 1h 37m

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6.4 / 10

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Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.

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Directed by

Stephen Frears

Written by

Shawn Slovo

Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer

John Marshall Harlan

Frank Langella

Frank Langella

Chief Justice Warren Burger

Ed Begley Jr.

Ed Begley Jr.

Justice Harry Blackmun

Peter Gerety

Peter Gerety

William Brennan

Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson

Justice Potter Stewart

John Bedford Lloyd

John Bedford Lloyd

Byron 'Whizzer' White

Fritz Weaver

Fritz Weaver

Hugo Black

Court is in session

Put Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Adrenaline Seeker

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.