American Wrestler: The Wizard
In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.
19 April 1996, Marin County, California, USA
9 June 1994, Sacramento, California, USA
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
23 August 1970, Houston, Texas, USA
26 April 1986, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
December 17, 2016
"American Wrestler" is mostly tired old formula. Still, what the movie lacks in originality it makes up for in personality ...
December 19, 2016
Only a middling example of its genre ...
December 15, 2016
It may be by-the-book, but "American Wrestler" is a story well worth telling.
