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The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini

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Canada · 2013
1h 30m
Director Jesse James Miller
Starring Ray Mancini, Mickey Rourke, Ed O'Neill, Mark Kriegel
Genre Documentary

This documentary shows the life of boxer Ray `Boom Boom' Mancini. In 1982, Ray fought Duk Koo Kim in a televised bout at Caesars Palace. Mancini won the match; however, Kim went into a coma dying four days later. The film deals with the repercussions of this tragedy on Mancini and the boxing world.

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67

IndieWire by

The Good Son is Mancini’s mea culpa memoir; a grand act of self-vindication that succeeds because the boxer is sympathetic and asks respectfully for forgiveness and absolution.

20

Village Voice by Calum Marsh

Mancini, who served as an executive producer, is glorified and exonerated, yet it's his inability to render either process interesting that ultimately sinks the picture.

63

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

The final scenes, when Mancini meets Kim’s son, have the awkward feel of an “Oprah” episode, with the editing and music suggesting a catharsis that isn’t always backed up by what’s on-screen.

50

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

The odd and disturbing thing about the film is just how comfortable [Mancini] — and we — have become putting moments on camera that, once upon a time, were meant to be shared between two people.

80

Variety by Rob Nelson

Director Jesse James Miller’s bio of ‘80s-era World Boxing Council lightweight champ Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini connects on emotional levels in the telling of an up-from-nothing brawler whose colorful career climaxed in tragedy.

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