Fighting with My Family is a 2019 biographical sports comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephen Merchant. Based on the 2012 documentary The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family by Max Fisher, it depicts the career of English professional wrestler Paige as she makes her way to WWE, while also following her brother Zak Zodiac, as he struggles with his failure to achieve similar success. Florence Pugh and Jack Lowden star as Paige and Zodiac respectively, alongside Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Vince Vaughn, and Dwayne Johnson, with the latter also acting as producer.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 28 January 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on 14 February 2019. It received positive reviews from critics, particularly for the performances of Pugh and Vaughn. The film grossed $41.5 million worldwide.

Plot

Wrestlers Rick and Julia Knight raise their children, Saraya and Zak, to follow in their footsteps; as young adults, the siblings apply to join the WWE, and are evaluated by veteran trainer Hutch Morgan, who agrees to let them try out before a SmackDown taping at The O2 Arena, where they meet WWE legend Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Shortly before her tryout, Saraya adopts the stage name Paige .

Morgan chooses Paige to train for the WWE, but not Zak, despite Paige s protests. Arriving at NXT in Florida, Paige has difficulty with the training, especially given that her fellow trainees are mostly models and cheerleaders who have no wrestling experience and thus make poor opponents. Paige also struggles with performing choreographed promos as they clash with her own natural instincts, and suffers from Morgan s constant belittlement of her mistakes. Morgan forces Zak to return home after making it clear he will never be signed to the WWE, leaving Paige with no one to stick up for her.

During her WWE debut at an NXT live event, Paige is heckled by the crowd and freezes, leaving the ring in tears. She tries bleaching her dark hair and gets a spray tan in a desperate attempt to fit in with her peers. After failing an obstacle course, Paige lashes out at the other trainees for gossiping about her when they weren t. A sympathetic Morgan then reveals to Paige the real reason he didn t let Zak sign up: the league would have forced him to work as a jobber, which would have ruined his health. Morgan implies that a similar experience forced him to give up on his own wrestling career.

Believing that professional wrestling isn t worth it and that she d have a much happier life helping her parents train other wrestlers, Paige decides to quit the WWE and return to her hometown. She travels home for the Christmas break to inform her family of her decision. Angry that she is giving up on the dream that he failed to achieve, Zak attacks Paige during a wrestling match, then gets in a drunken bar fight. Paige changes her mind after Zak berates her for giving up, and she returns to Florida to rejoin the WWE. She reasserts her individuality by re-adopting her original hair color and skin tone, rapidly improves in training, and befriends and encourages many of her fellow trainees.

Morgan brings the trainees to WrestleMania XXX, where The Rock greets Paige and tells her she will make her Raw debut the following night against the current WWE Divas Champion, AJ Lee. Paige makes her Raw debut, where she again freezes, and takes a severe beating from Lee before finally turning the tables and beating the champion. Claiming Lee s title for herself, she proudly declares that this is MY house now! as her family and friends cheer her victory back home.

Cast

• Florence Pugh as Saraya Paige Bevis, Zak s little sister and Patrick and Julia s daughter. Her stunts during wrestling scenes were performed by Tessa Blanchard. Tori Ellen Ross as young Paige
• Tori Ellen Ross as young Paige
• Lena Headey as Julia Sweet Saraya Knight Hamer, Paige and Zak s mother and Patrick s wife.
• Nick Frost as Patrick Rowdy Ricky Knight Bevis, Paige and Zak s father and Julia s husband.
• Jack Lowden as Zak Zodiac Knight Bevis, Paige s older brother and Patrick and Julia s son.
• Vince Vaughn as Hutch Morgan, a recruiter and coach for the WWE.
• Dwayne Johnson as himself/The Rock
• James Burrows as Roy Knight, Patrick s son, Julia s stepson and Zak and Paige s older half-brother.
• Hannah Rae as Courtney, Zak s girlfriend and mother of his son, Caden.
• Thea Trinidad as April Jeanette AJ Lee Mendez
• Kim Matula as Jeri-Lynn
• Aqueela Zoll as Kirsten
• Ellie Gonsalves as Maddison
• Elroy Powell as Union Jack
• Jack Gouldbourne as Calum
• Stephen Merchant as Hugh, Courtney s father.
• Julia Davis as Daphne, Courtney s mother.

Additionally, WWE wrestlers Big Show, Sheamus and The Miz make appearances as themselves, while an uncredited actor played John Cena. Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and John Layfield provide commentary on the Paige vs. AJ Lee match. Several other WWE wrestlers (including Cena himself), as well as the real Knight family, appear in archival footage throughout the film.

Production

On 7 February 2017, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Dwayne Johnson and Stephen Merchant had teamed with WWE Studios and Film4 to produce a film based on the life of Saraya Paige Bevis, a professional wrestler with the WWE. Merchant would write and direct the film, while Johnson would cameo in the film and executive produce. In the days after the announcement, the main cast was revealed: Florence Pugh as Saraya, Jack Lowden as Saraya s brother Zak, and Lena Headey and Nick Frost as their parents. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the distribution rights on 10 February for US$17.5 million. On 14 February, Johnson announced that Vince Vaughn had been cast, and filming would commence the following day. In-ring scenes were filmed after WWE Raw on 20 February at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Filming also took place around Bracknell, Berkshire, specifically the Harmans Water area, also in and around Norwich, Norfolk, England, with locations around the city used in the film, as well as the seaside town of Great Yarmouth, and at Pinewood Studios.

Historical accuracy

Like many biographical films, the film took several liberties with Paige s journey with WWE. Paige s time in NXT was kept minimal with no mention of her reign as NXT Women s Champion, and several characters were fictional, including Hutch Morgan. Additionally, Paige had previously failed a WWE tryout before being successful in another. Johnson himself never met Paige (or any of the Bevis/Knight family) until seeing the original documentary in 2012, unlike the film s fictionalized portrayal of Johnson meeting Paige and Zak backstage of a WWE event in England; Johnson himself had just returned to WWE in 2011 after a seven-year absence when Paige signed with WWE in April 2011.

Release

Fighting with My Family premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on 28 January. It was released in the United States on 14 February 2019, in four theatres in Los Angeles and New York, and expanded to a wide release on 22 February 2019. It was released on 27 February 2019 in the United Kingdom.

Reception

Box office

Fighting with My Family grossed $41.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $11 million.

In its limited opening weekend, Fighting with My Family made $162,567 from four theaters over the four-day President s Day weekend. The film expanded to 2,711 theaters the following weekend and made $2.6 million on its first Friday wide, including $450,000 from Thursday night previews, and went on to gross $8 million for the weekend, finishing fourth at the box office. In its second weekend of wide release, the film made $4.7 million, dropping 40% and finishing seventh.

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 242 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website s critical consensus reads, Much like the sport it celebrates, Fighting with My Family muscles past clichés with a potent blend of energy and committed acting that should leave audiences cheering. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A− on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an overall positive score of 83% and a 57% definite recommend.

Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com opined in a three-out-of-four star review: Even though Fighting with My Family is undoubtedly about branding the WWE as a fantasy factory, its biggest strengths are its wit and surprisingly big heart.

Fighting with My Family is a 2019 biographical sports comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephen Merchant. Based on the 2012 documentary The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family by Max Fisher, it depicts the career of English professional wrestler Paige as she makes her way to WWE, while also following her brother Zak Zodiac, as he struggles with his failure to achieve similar success. Florence Pugh and Jack Lowden star as Paige and Zodiac respectively, alongside Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Vince Vaughn, and Dwayne Johnson, with the latter also acting as producer.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 28 January 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on 14 February 2019. It received positive reviews from critics, particularly for the performances of Pugh and Vaughn. The film grossed $41.5 million worldwide.

Plot

Wrestlers Rick and Julia Knight raise their children, Saraya and Zak, to follow in their footsteps; as young adults, the siblings apply to join the WWE, and are evaluated by veteran trainer Hutch Morgan, who agrees to let them try out before a SmackDown taping at The O2 Arena, where they meet WWE legend Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Shortly before her tryout, Saraya adopts the stage name Paige .

Morgan chooses Paige to train for the WWE, but not Zak, despite Paige s protests. Arriving at NXT in Florida, Paige has difficulty with the training, especially given that her fellow trainees are mostly models and cheerleaders who have no wrestling experience and thus make poor opponents. Paige also struggles with performing choreographed promos as they clash with her own natural instincts, and suffers from Morgan s constant belittlement of her mistakes. Morgan forces Zak to return home after making it clear he will never be signed to the WWE, leaving Paige with no one to stick up for her.

During her WWE debut at an NXT live event, Paige is heckled by the crowd and freezes, leaving the ring in tears. She tries bleaching her dark hair and gets a spray tan in a desperate attempt to fit in with her peers. After failing an obstacle course, Paige lashes out at the other trainees for gossiping about her when they weren t. A sympathetic Morgan then reveals to Paige the real reason he didn t let Zak sign up: the league would have forced him to work as a jobber, which would have ruined his health. Morgan implies that a similar experience forced him to give up on his own wrestling career.

Believing that professional wrestling isn t worth it and that she d have a much happier life helping her parents train other wrestlers, Paige decides to quit the WWE and return to her hometown. She travels home for the Christmas break to inform her family of her decision. Angry that she is giving up on the dream that he failed to achieve, Zak attacks Paige during a wrestling match, then gets in a drunken bar fight. Paige changes her mind after Zak berates her for giving up, and she returns to Florida to rejoin the WWE. She reasserts her individuality by re-adopting her original hair color and skin tone, rapidly improves in training, and befriends and encourages many of her fellow trainees.

Morgan brings the trainees to WrestleMania XXX, where The Rock greets Paige and tells her she will make her Raw debut the following night against the current WWE Divas Champion, AJ Lee. Paige makes her Raw debut, where she again freezes, and takes a severe beating from Lee before finally turning the tables and beating the champion. Claiming Lee s title for herself, she proudly declares that this is MY house now! as her family and friends cheer her victory back home.

Cast

• Florence Pugh as Saraya Paige Bevis, Zak s little sister and Patrick and Julia s daughter. Her stunts during wrestling scenes were performed by Tessa Blanchard. Tori Ellen Ross as young Paige
• Tori Ellen Ross as young Paige
• Lena Headey as Julia Sweet Saraya Knight Hamer, Paige and Zak s mother and Patrick s wife.
• Nick Frost as Patrick Rowdy Ricky Knight Bevis, Paige and Zak s father and Julia s husband.
• Jack Lowden as Zak Zodiac Knight Bevis, Paige s older brother and Patrick and Julia s son.
• Vince Vaughn as Hutch Morgan, a recruiter and coach for the WWE.
• Dwayne Johnson as himself/The Rock
• James Burrows as Roy Knight, Patrick s son, Julia s stepson and Zak and Paige s older half-brother.
• Hannah Rae as Courtney, Zak s girlfriend and mother of his son, Caden.
• Thea Trinidad as April Jeanette AJ Lee Mendez
• Kim Matula as Jeri-Lynn
• Aqueela Zoll as Kirsten
• Ellie Gonsalves as Maddison
• Elroy Powell as Union Jack
• Jack Gouldbourne as Calum
• Stephen Merchant as Hugh, Courtney s father.
• Julia Davis as Daphne, Courtney s mother.

Additionally, WWE wrestlers Big Show, Sheamus and The Miz make appearances as themselves, while an uncredited actor played John Cena. Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and John Layfield provide commentary on the Paige vs. AJ Lee match. Several other WWE wrestlers (including Cena himself), as well as the real Knight family, appear in archival footage throughout the film.

Production

On 7 February 2017, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Dwayne Johnson and Stephen Merchant had teamed with WWE Studios and Film4 to produce a film based on the life of Saraya Paige Bevis, a professional wrestler with the WWE. Merchant would write and direct the film, while Johnson would cameo in the film and executive produce. In the days after the announcement, the main cast was revealed: Florence Pugh as Saraya, Jack Lowden as Saraya s brother Zak, and Lena Headey and Nick Frost as their parents. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the distribution rights on 10 February for US$17.5 million. On 14 February, Johnson announced that Vince Vaughn had been cast, and filming would commence the following day. In-ring scenes were filmed after WWE Raw on 20 February at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Filming also took place around Bracknell, Berkshire, specifically the Harmans Water area, also in and around Norwich, Norfolk, England, with locations around the city used in the film, as well as the seaside town of Great Yarmouth, and at Pinewood Studios.

Historical accuracy

Like many biographical films, the film took several liberties with Paige s journey with WWE. Paige s time in NXT was kept minimal with no mention of her reign as NXT Women s Champion, and several characters were fictional, including Hutch Morgan. Additionally, Paige had previously failed a WWE tryout before being successful in another. Johnson himself never met Paige (or any of the Bevis/Knight family) until seeing the original documentary in 2012, unlike the film s fictionalized portrayal of Johnson meeting Paige and Zak backstage of a WWE event in England; Johnson himself had just returned to WWE in 2011 after a seven-year absence when Paige signed with WWE in April 2011.

Release

Fighting with My Family premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on 28 January. It was released in the United States on 14 February 2019, in four theatres in Los Angeles and New York, and expanded to a wide release on 22 February 2019. It was released on 27 February 2019 in the United Kingdom.

Reception

Box office

Fighting with My Family grossed $41.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $11 million.

In its limited opening weekend, Fighting with My Family made $162,567 from four theaters over the four-day President s Day weekend. The film expanded to 2,711 theaters the following weekend and made $2.6 million on its first Friday wide, including $450,000 from Thursday night previews, and went on to gross $8 million for the weekend, finishing fourth at the box office. In its second weekend of wide release, the film made $4.7 million, dropping 40% and finishing seventh.

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 242 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website s critical consensus reads, Much like the sport it celebrates, Fighting with My Family muscles past clichés with a potent blend of energy and committed acting that should leave audiences cheering. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A− on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an overall positive score of 83% and a 57% definite recommend.

Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com opined in a three-out-of-four star review: Even though Fighting with My Family is undoubtedly about branding the WWE as a fantasy factory, its biggest strengths are its wit and surprisingly big heart.

Year	2019
ReleaseDate	2019-02-22
RuntimeMins	108
RuntimeStr	1h 48min
Plot	A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.
Awards	Awards, 10 wins & 5 nominations
Directors	Stephen Merchant
Writers	Stephen Merchant
Stars	Dwayne Johnson, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn
Produced by	Daniel Battsek,Andy Berman,Jamie Elliott,Dany Garcia,Hiram Garcia,Dwayne Johnson,Tracey Josephs,David Kosse,Michael J. Luisi,Sarada McDermott,Stephen Merchant,Kevin Misher,David Pelech,Ralph E. Portillo,Rhodri Thomas
Music by	Vik Sharma
Cinematography by	Remi Adefarasin
Film Editing by	Nancy Richardson
Casting By	Shaheen Baig
Production Design by	Nick Palmer
Art Direction by	Gareth Cousins,Christina Eunji Kim
Set Decoration by	James JD Knight Dunn,Ellie Pash
Costume Design by	Matthew Price
Makeup Department	Merc Arceneaux,Laura Blount,Diana Brown,Darlene Brumfield,Fiona Chaffey,Ashleigh Childers,Mary Cooke,Raqueli Dahan-Gonen,Suzanne David,Dawn Victoria Dudley,Anthea Gappmayer,Harriette Landau,Valli O Reilly,Jutta Russell,Maria Sandoval,Alice Schneidau,Minaxi Shah,Rachel Solow,Roxie Stice,Katalin Urszuly,Claire Whiteley,Lillie Zohdy,Dawn Victoria Dudley
Production Management	Nancy Bray,John H. Brister,Joel Henry,Brent C. Johnson,Miranda Jones,Shawn Montgomery,Liz Richards,Jennifer Scudder Trent,Ami Werges
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Jude Campbell,Nick Candy,Sam Dawking,Maximillian D. Day,Conor Feltham,Stephen Gallacher,Steven Hacker,Freddie Hall,Daniel Harries,Andrew Heard,Paul Herbert,Ian Hughes,Tara Keenan,Adam Morris,Carla Rose Ponzio,Alexa Sheehan,Pete Waterman
Art Department	Jonathan Bosshart,Will Botton,Max Bradley,Rosie Burnett,Roy Chapman,Dan Crawshaw,Aaron Ferenc,Trixie Gardner,Jeremy Glaholt,Eddie Grisco,Tom Hargreaves,Lauren Ito,Lindsey Jacobs,Gary Jobber,Larry Lira,Dan Marsden,Laura Mickiewicz,Anthony Noble,Seb Palmer,Natalie Papageorgiadis,Caroline Post,Sophie Powell,Maria Reynoso,Paul Rigby,Gary Robinson,Andrew Settle,Tozar Simich,Mark Sindall,Mark Smith,Walter Straum,Adrian Valenzuela,Adrian Vasquez,Katharine Watling,Mark White,Meg Witts,Emily Woodward,James Gray xxxx
Sound Department	Douglas Axtell,Julian Bale,Martin Beresford,Ethan Biggers,Sam Biggs,Ben Conley,Kayla Croft,Richard Davey,Mike DeBonis,Ken Galvin,Jamie Gambell,Jack Gillies,Tim Hands,Christopher Hau,Lee James,Thom Kellar,Nick Kray,Bob Lacivita,Jed Loughran,David Mackie,Arran Mahoney,Clare Mahoney,Joe Malone,James Mather,Ben Meechan,Candela Palencia,Darryl Peat,Mike Prestwood Smith,Lee Riley,Ben Stewart,Sam Stubbing,Jason Swanscott,Mike Tehrani,Micha Wabro,Mhairi Wyles-Lang,Jeffrey Zimmerman
Special Effects by	Neil Jenkins,Scott MacIntyre,Eddy Popplewell
Visual Effects by	Andrea Aceto,Itamar Aloni,Deane Boeka,Tim Caplan,Rick Cortes,Amy Denny-Guerin,Ryan Dorney,Lisa Theresa Downey-Dent,James D. Etherington,Tiago Faria,Emanuele Farnesi,Kai Gadd,Attila Gasparetz,Oliver Goater,Jacob Green,Alexander Ha,Evan Hage,Jason M. Halverson,John Hardwick,Will Hardwick,Shani Hermoni,Robin Hinch,Simon Hughes,Zafar Janjua,Zak Junjua,Taskin Kenan,Elliot Mander,Callum Mcnulty,Peter Medrow,Corey Milne,Scott Milne,Evelyn Minango,Dillan Nicholls,Ole-Aleksander Nordby,Noel O Malley,Jose Alberto Pino,Rob Pizzey,Iain Read,Lisa Rustage,Anna Samuel,James Schumacher,Cristina Serreli,Stephanie Jean Staunton,Noga Alon Stein,Chris Tang,Alexandros Theodosiou,Jesse Toves,Lewis Wright,Luca Zappala,Alexander Ha
Stunts	Thomas Billings,Tessa Blanchard,Nellie Burroughes,Nick Chopping,Brittney Ayona Clemons,Elizabeth Donker Curtius,David Forman,Paul Herbert,Ricky Bevis Junior,Theo Kypri,Andy Merchant,Casey Michaels,Brian Nickels,Chris Rowe,Laura Swift,Roy Taylor,Joe Watts,Richard Wheeldon,Alice Ford,Eli Jane,Carlo Sciortino,Lauren Shaw,Nikki Stanley
Camera and Electrical Department	Eddie Adcock,Ben Adefarasin,Rene Adefarasin,Fabio Affuso,Austin Ahlborg,James W. Apted,Renzo Bartolotta,Ian Barwick,Tim Battersby,Paul Berry,Tony Buckthorpe,Delroy Burley,Ray Burmiston,Tom Carpenter,Vic Chouchanian,Betty Chow,Nicholas Clarke,Josh Close,Scott Crabbe,Brandon Crawford,James B. Crawford,Richard Crow,Kriss Dallimore,Cameron Davidson,Michael J. DiCarlo,Gregory Doi,Guy Elliot-Smith,David Elwell,Simon Finney,Kyler Jae,Ernesto Joven,James Kennedy,Jack Harrison Knott,Maxwell Leggett,Jesse Llande,Mick Lord,Tomas Euan Maddrell,Diona Mavis,Neil McConville,Jon Mendenhall,Mathias Moka,Tim Neill,Stéphane Renard,Jason Reynier,Mike Roe,Paul Rowe,Marc Sheriff,Cameron Smart,Benjamin Spek,Henry Tirl,Jaimie Trueblood,Robert Viglasky,Naomi Villanueva-Brunner,Pete Nash
Casting Department	Rosie Carter,Louis Elman,Michelle Giovanni,Tamara-Lee Notcutt,Vanessa Portillo
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Kara Colbeck,Anne T. Delaney,Marylou Diaz,Bill Edwards,Linda Lindsay Edwards,Anna Graveling,Demetricus Holloway,Madeleine Jenkins,Robert Mata,Mimi Milburn-Foster,Asia Muka,Tamsin Pearson,Charlie Poole,Rosie Stoward,Sarah Wachel
Editorial Department	Charlotte Barnes,Sara Buxton,Maria Chamberlain,Tom Corbett,Georgina Cranmer,Chris Crookall,James Devlin,Steve Evans,Rob Farris,Neil Harrison,Lawrence Hook,Patrick Malone,Scarlett Mulraine-Simkin,Alexander Phillips,Rob Pizzey,Pablo Prietto,Carlos Nestor Ramos,Finlay Reid,Shaun Richards,Lisa Rustage,Brian Spirnak,Daniel Tomlinson,Laurent Treherne
Location Management	David Berechet,Musonda Chola,Emily Coldwell,Sam Courtnage,Lex Donovan,Jodie Gregory,Jonathon Lawrence,Lucy Lee,Billy Lowry,Emma Jane Richards,Denis Sewell,Amy Smith
Music Department	Sarah Bridge,Peter Clarke,Jason Cooper,Graham Coxon,Cameron Craig,Jay Duerr,Pru Miller,Marc Robinson,Vik Sharma,Paul Silver,Jayson Wong,Katie Colley
Script and Continuity Department	Julia Chiavetta
Transportation Department	David R. Blakely,Mick Boddy,Roger Bojarski Jr.,Troy Bridenstine,Cody Caira,Steve Clarke,Peter Croft,Reza Eftekhari,Paul Gatley,Michael Geary,Scotty Goudreau,Peter Jarman,Nigel Moore,Rod Patterson,Emma Savin,Clive Shaw,Frixos Vassiliades,Gregor Wcisclo,Tony White,Eddie Wilcox
Additional Crew	Mehdi Abbaspour,Maria Aguilar,Gerard Andrews,Geraldine Atlee,Robbie Brooks,Xia Brooks,Sarah Carswell,Matt Curtis,Chas Dabby,Cristina Di Meo,Marie Dong,Minnie Duerr,Nicky Earnshaw,Paul Emmons,Preston Ewen,Leanne Fairbrother,Conor Feltham,John Fillingham,Kerry Flood,Nicki Foster,Hannah J Gordon,Gareth Harris,Nicholas Harvell,Mari Hopkins,Pete Howe,Amy Jing,Blake Johnson,Johnathon Johnson,Elizabeth Jordan,Emily Leach,Anthony Leech,Jordan Lees,Lori Lewis,Jamie MacDonald,Louise Mackay,Barbara Magaraci,Jan McWilliams,Emma Niamh Mitchell,Finn Monteath,Ali Moshref,Christopher Mulvin,Louise O Malley,Julia Oh,Liz Pena,Jeff Pitman,Amber Plumer,Duncan Robertson,Emma Robinson,Liam French Robinson,Adam Rosenberg,Chris Rowe,Jonathan Rutter,Zabarjad Budgie Salam,Jason Salzman,Jack Sellars,Albert Sharpe,James Shields,Paul Slim,Miles Spagnola,Mikel Stareyshinski,Ellen Steers,Dave Taylor,Felicity Thorpe,Annabel Towler,Philippa Tsang,Derek Van Valkenburg,Laura Vivio,Lewis Walsh,Aubrey Whitten,Charlotte Wilde,Robert Everett Williams Jr.,Kaleti Williams,Shauna Winchester,Julie Winograd,Evette Young,Ashton Fontana,Cassie George
Thanks	Matt Bloom,Adam Campbell,Dave Castro,Jennifer Celotta,Canyon Ceman,Joel Clarke,Michael Coulthard,Drew Crevello,Katie Dippold,Lee Eisenberg,George Germanakos,Kosha Irby,Dwayne Johnson,Joylynn Johnson,Christopher Kaiser,Howie E. Kremer,Michael Lasker,Jerry Lawler,Jon Lovett,Michael Mansury,Eric Massoud,Darren Matthews,Dan Mazer,Drew McDonald,Griffin Misher,Mircea Monroe,Jarrad Paul,Kristin Prouty,Jordan Rubin,Sean Sellman,Matt Selman,Christopher Siciliano,Fraser Steele,Diana Velez
Genres	Biography, Comedy, Drama
Companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Channel 4 Television Corporation, Film4
Countries	UK, USA
Languages	English
ContentRating	PG-13
ImDbRating	7.1
ImDbRatingVotes	81055
MetacriticRating	68
Keywords	brother sister relationship,jock strap on head,wrestling,based on true story,based on real person
Year	2019
ReleaseDate	2019-02-22
RuntimeMins	108
RuntimeStr	1h 48min
Plot	A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.
Awards	Awards, 10 wins & 5 nominations
Directors	Stephen Merchant
Writers	Stephen Merchant
Stars	Dwayne Johnson, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn
Produced by	Daniel Battsek,Andy Berman,Jamie Elliott,Dany Garcia,Hiram Garcia,Dwayne Johnson,Tracey Josephs,David Kosse,Michael J. Luisi,Sarada McDermott,Stephen Merchant,Kevin Misher,David Pelech,Ralph E. Portillo,Rhodri Thomas
Music by	Vik Sharma
Cinematography by	Remi Adefarasin
Film Editing by	Nancy Richardson
Casting By	Shaheen Baig
Production Design by	Nick Palmer
Art Direction by	Gareth Cousins,Christina Eunji Kim
Set Decoration by	James JD Knight Dunn,Ellie Pash
Costume Design by	Matthew Price
Makeup Department	Merc Arceneaux,Laura Blount,Diana Brown,Darlene Brumfield,Fiona Chaffey,Ashleigh Childers,Mary Cooke,Raqueli Dahan-Gonen,Suzanne David,Dawn Victoria Dudley,Anthea Gappmayer,Harriette Landau,Valli O Reilly,Jutta Russell,Maria Sandoval,Alice Schneidau,Minaxi Shah,Rachel Solow,Roxie Stice,Katalin Urszuly,Claire Whiteley,Lillie Zohdy,Dawn Victoria Dudley
Production Management	Nancy Bray,John H. Brister,Joel Henry,Brent C. Johnson,Miranda Jones,Shawn Montgomery,Liz Richards,Jennifer Scudder Trent,Ami Werges
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Jude Campbell,Nick Candy,Sam Dawking,Maximillian D. Day,Conor Feltham,Stephen Gallacher,Steven Hacker,Freddie Hall,Daniel Harries,Andrew Heard,Paul Herbert,Ian Hughes,Tara Keenan,Adam Morris,Carla Rose Ponzio,Alexa Sheehan,Pete Waterman
Art Department	Jonathan Bosshart,Will Botton,Max Bradley,Rosie Burnett,Roy Chapman,Dan Crawshaw,Aaron Ferenc,Trixie Gardner,Jeremy Glaholt,Eddie Grisco,Tom Hargreaves,Lauren Ito,Lindsey Jacobs,Gary Jobber,Larry Lira,Dan Marsden,Laura Mickiewicz,Anthony Noble,Seb Palmer,Natalie Papageorgiadis,Caroline Post,Sophie Powell,Maria Reynoso,Paul Rigby,Gary Robinson,Andrew Settle,Tozar Simich,Mark Sindall,Mark Smith,Walter Straum,Adrian Valenzuela,Adrian Vasquez,Katharine Watling,Mark White,Meg Witts,Emily Woodward,James Gray xxxx
Sound Department	Douglas Axtell,Julian Bale,Martin Beresford,Ethan Biggers,Sam Biggs,Ben Conley,Kayla Croft,Richard Davey,Mike DeBonis,Ken Galvin,Jamie Gambell,Jack Gillies,Tim Hands,Christopher Hau,Lee James,Thom Kellar,Nick Kray,Bob Lacivita,Jed Loughran,David Mackie,Arran Mahoney,Clare Mahoney,Joe Malone,James Mather,Ben Meechan,Candela Palencia,Darryl Peat,Mike Prestwood Smith,Lee Riley,Ben Stewart,Sam Stubbing,Jason Swanscott,Mike Tehrani,Micha Wabro,Mhairi Wyles-Lang,Jeffrey Zimmerman
Special Effects by	Neil Jenkins,Scott MacIntyre,Eddy Popplewell
Visual Effects by	Andrea Aceto,Itamar Aloni,Deane Boeka,Tim Caplan,Rick Cortes,Amy Denny-Guerin,Ryan Dorney,Lisa Theresa Downey-Dent,James D. Etherington,Tiago Faria,Emanuele Farnesi,Kai Gadd,Attila Gasparetz,Oliver Goater,Jacob Green,Alexander Ha,Evan Hage,Jason M. Halverson,John Hardwick,Will Hardwick,Shani Hermoni,Robin Hinch,Simon Hughes,Zafar Janjua,Zak Junjua,Taskin Kenan,Elliot Mander,Callum Mcnulty,Peter Medrow,Corey Milne,Scott Milne,Evelyn Minango,Dillan Nicholls,Ole-Aleksander Nordby,Noel O Malley,Jose Alberto Pino,Rob Pizzey,Iain Read,Lisa Rustage,Anna Samuel,James Schumacher,Cristina Serreli,Stephanie Jean Staunton,Noga Alon Stein,Chris Tang,Alexandros Theodosiou,Jesse Toves,Lewis Wright,Luca Zappala,Alexander Ha
Stunts	Thomas Billings,Tessa Blanchard,Nellie Burroughes,Nick Chopping,Brittney Ayona Clemons,Elizabeth Donker Curtius,David Forman,Paul Herbert,Ricky Bevis Junior,Theo Kypri,Andy Merchant,Casey Michaels,Brian Nickels,Chris Rowe,Laura Swift,Roy Taylor,Joe Watts,Richard Wheeldon,Alice Ford,Eli Jane,Carlo Sciortino,Lauren Shaw,Nikki Stanley
Camera and Electrical Department	Eddie Adcock,Ben Adefarasin,Rene Adefarasin,Fabio Affuso,Austin Ahlborg,James W. Apted,Renzo Bartolotta,Ian Barwick,Tim Battersby,Paul Berry,Tony Buckthorpe,Delroy Burley,Ray Burmiston,Tom Carpenter,Vic Chouchanian,Betty Chow,Nicholas Clarke,Josh Close,Scott Crabbe,Brandon Crawford,James B. Crawford,Richard Crow,Kriss Dallimore,Cameron Davidson,Michael J. DiCarlo,Gregory Doi,Guy Elliot-Smith,David Elwell,Simon Finney,Kyler Jae,Ernesto Joven,James Kennedy,Jack Harrison Knott,Maxwell Leggett,Jesse Llande,Mick Lord,Tomas Euan Maddrell,Diona Mavis,Neil McConville,Jon Mendenhall,Mathias Moka,Tim Neill,Stéphane Renard,Jason Reynier,Mike Roe,Paul Rowe,Marc Sheriff,Cameron Smart,Benjamin Spek,Henry Tirl,Jaimie Trueblood,Robert Viglasky,Naomi Villanueva-Brunner,Pete Nash
Casting Department	Rosie Carter,Louis Elman,Michelle Giovanni,Tamara-Lee Notcutt,Vanessa Portillo
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Kara Colbeck,Anne T. Delaney,Marylou Diaz,Bill Edwards,Linda Lindsay Edwards,Anna Graveling,Demetricus Holloway,Madeleine Jenkins,Robert Mata,Mimi Milburn-Foster,Asia Muka,Tamsin Pearson,Charlie Poole,Rosie Stoward,Sarah Wachel
Editorial Department	Charlotte Barnes,Sara Buxton,Maria Chamberlain,Tom Corbett,Georgina Cranmer,Chris Crookall,James Devlin,Steve Evans,Rob Farris,Neil Harrison,Lawrence Hook,Patrick Malone,Scarlett Mulraine-Simkin,Alexander Phillips,Rob Pizzey,Pablo Prietto,Carlos Nestor Ramos,Finlay Reid,Shaun Richards,Lisa Rustage,Brian Spirnak,Daniel Tomlinson,Laurent Treherne
Location Management	David Berechet,Musonda Chola,Emily Coldwell,Sam Courtnage,Lex Donovan,Jodie Gregory,Jonathon Lawrence,Lucy Lee,Billy Lowry,Emma Jane Richards,Denis Sewell,Amy Smith
Music Department	Sarah Bridge,Peter Clarke,Jason Cooper,Graham Coxon,Cameron Craig,Jay Duerr,Pru Miller,Marc Robinson,Vik Sharma,Paul Silver,Jayson Wong,Katie Colley
Script and Continuity Department	Julia Chiavetta
Transportation Department	David R. Blakely,Mick Boddy,Roger Bojarski Jr.,Troy Bridenstine,Cody Caira,Steve Clarke,Peter Croft,Reza Eftekhari,Paul Gatley,Michael Geary,Scotty Goudreau,Peter Jarman,Nigel Moore,Rod Patterson,Emma Savin,Clive Shaw,Frixos Vassiliades,Gregor Wcisclo,Tony White,Eddie Wilcox
Additional Crew	Mehdi Abbaspour,Maria Aguilar,Gerard Andrews,Geraldine Atlee,Robbie Brooks,Xia Brooks,Sarah Carswell,Matt Curtis,Chas Dabby,Cristina Di Meo,Marie Dong,Minnie Duerr,Nicky Earnshaw,Paul Emmons,Preston Ewen,Leanne Fairbrother,Conor Feltham,John Fillingham,Kerry Flood,Nicki Foster,Hannah J Gordon,Gareth Harris,Nicholas Harvell,Mari Hopkins,Pete Howe,Amy Jing,Blake Johnson,Johnathon Johnson,Elizabeth Jordan,Emily Leach,Anthony Leech,Jordan Lees,Lori Lewis,Jamie MacDonald,Louise Mackay,Barbara Magaraci,Jan McWilliams,Emma Niamh Mitchell,Finn Monteath,Ali Moshref,Christopher Mulvin,Louise O Malley,Julia Oh,Liz Pena,Jeff Pitman,Amber Plumer,Duncan Robertson,Emma Robinson,Liam French Robinson,Adam Rosenberg,Chris Rowe,Jonathan Rutter,Zabarjad Budgie Salam,Jason Salzman,Jack Sellars,Albert Sharpe,James Shields,Paul Slim,Miles Spagnola,Mikel Stareyshinski,Ellen Steers,Dave Taylor,Felicity Thorpe,Annabel Towler,Philippa Tsang,Derek Van Valkenburg,Laura Vivio,Lewis Walsh,Aubrey Whitten,Charlotte Wilde,Robert Everett Williams Jr.,Kaleti Williams,Shauna Winchester,Julie Winograd,Evette Young,Ashton Fontana,Cassie George
Thanks	Matt Bloom,Adam Campbell,Dave Castro,Jennifer Celotta,Canyon Ceman,Joel Clarke,Michael Coulthard,Drew Crevello,Katie Dippold,Lee Eisenberg,George Germanakos,Kosha Irby,Dwayne Johnson,Joylynn Johnson,Christopher Kaiser,Howie E. Kremer,Michael Lasker,Jerry Lawler,Jon Lovett,Michael Mansury,Eric Massoud,Darren Matthews,Dan Mazer,Drew McDonald,Griffin Misher,Mircea Monroe,Jarrad Paul,Kristin Prouty,Jordan Rubin,Sean Sellman,Matt Selman,Christopher Siciliano,Fraser Steele,Diana Velez
Genres	Biography, Comedy, Drama
Companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Channel 4 Television Corporation, Film4
Countries	UK, USA
Languages	English
ContentRating	PG-13
ImDbRating	7.1
ImDbRatingVotes	81055
MetacriticRating	68
Keywords	brother sister relationship,jock strap on head,wrestling,based on true story,based on real person