Don King - Only In America [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Ving Rhames Vondie Curtis-Hall Jeremy Piven Darius McCrary Keith David
	Video by:	Hbo Home Video
	Sales Rank:	264191

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Actor(s):
Ving Rhames
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Jeremy Piven
Darius McCrary
Keith David

Creators:
Bill Butler (Cinematographer)
Steven Cohen (Editor)
David Blocker (Producer)
David Gaines (Producer)
Thomas Carter (Producer)
Jack Newfield (Writer)
Kario Salem (Writer)

Director(s):
John Herzfeld

Recording label: Hbo Home Video
EAN: 9780783112602
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0783112602
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC,
Release Date: 1999-01-26
Universal product code (UPC): 026359146930
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: R (Restricted)

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Made for HBO, this film biography of boxing promoter Don King is solid entertainment, thanks to a startlingly real performance at its core by Ving Rhames (who won a Golden Globe award for the role, then gave it away to Jack Lemmon on the TV broadcast). Rhames has the shuck-and-jive, but also the canny intelligence, as the film follows King from small-time numbers runner and concert promoter to ex-con to self-created fight mogul. The movie, based on a book by Jack Newfield, doesn't pull punches in outlining King's extralegal shenanigans and strong-arm tactics, bracketed by a device of having King address the audience from a boxing ring as he introduces episodes from his life. That could have gotten old, but not with the foxy, insinuating Rhames doing the talking. --Marshall Fine

Running time: 121 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)