{"id":37671,"date":"2014-06-13T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=37671"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:11:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:11:13","slug":"the-good-son-the-powerful-story-of-ray-boom-boom-mancini-and-the-one-night-his-career-unraveled-in-an-award-winning-documentary-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=37671","title":{"rendered":"THE GOOD SON, the Powerful Story of Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini and the One Night His Career Unraveled in an Award-Winning Documentary – MOVIE NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There are stories in sports that will never be forgotten. <\/em><\/p>\n

Now, for one of the greatest boxers of them all, a new chapter\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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FOR AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY ABOUT A BOXING ICON…AND THE ONE NIGHT HIS CAREER UNRAVELED IN THIS POWERFUL, INTIMATE STORY OF FATHERS AND FIGHTERS,\u00a0<\/strong>LOSS AND REDEMPTION<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

THE GOOD SON<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frank Sinatra fawned over him.\u00a0 Warren Zevon wrote a tribute song about him.\u00a0 Sylvester Stallone produced his life story as a movie of the week.\u00a0 In the 1980s, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini wasn’t merely the lightweight champ — an adoring public considered him a national hero, the real Rocky.\u00a0 From the mobbed-up steel city of Youngstown, Ohio, Mancini was cast as the savior of a sport: a righteous kid in a corrupt game, symbolically potent and demographically perfect, the last white ethnic.\u00a0 He fought for those left behind in busted-out mill towns across America.\u00a0 But most of all, he fought for his father.\u00a0 Lenny Mancini, the original Boom Boom, as he was called, had been a lightweight contender himself.\u00a0 But the elder Mancini’s dream ended on a battlefield in November 1944, when fragments from a German mortar shell nearly killed him.\u00a0 Almost four decades later, Ray promised to win the title his father could not. What came of that vow was a feel-good fable for network television. But it all came apart November 13, 1982, in a brutal battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.\u00a0 Mancini’s obscure Korean challenger, Duk Koo Kim, went down in the 14th round and never regained consciousness.\u00a0 Three months later, Kim’s despondent mother took her own life.\u00a0 The deaths would haunt Ray and impact his carefully crafted image, suddenly transforming boxing’s All-American Boy into a pariah.<\/p>\n

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Now, thirty years after that nationally televised bout, the story’s full dimensions are finally uncovered.\u00a0 In tracking the Mancini and Kim families across generations, confessions and mysteries from the killing of Mancini’s brother to the fate of Kim’s son are brought to light.\u00a0 In scenes both brutal and tender, the narrative moves from Youngstown to New York, Vegas to Seoul, Reno to Hollywood, where the inevitably romantic idea of a fighter comes up against reality.\u00a0\u00a0 Featuring appearances by every major character in the story, as well as stars and longtime Mancini friends Mickey Rourke, Ed O’Neill, Sugar Ray Lennon and others, THE GOOD SON is an emotional, extraordinary, and unforgettable film – for fans in both the United States, and South Korea; and for viewers who both are reliving the story, and hearing it for the first time.<\/p>\n

Aside from being available to purchase on Amazon, THE GOOD SON is also available to rent ($2.99\/SD, $3.99\/HD) and buy ($6.99\/SD, $9.99\/HD) through Amazon Instant Video.\u00a0 Further it will also air on NBC Sports on Saturday, June 7 at 10pm ET and be available via SnagFilms free streaming site, SnagFilms.com, in July.<\/p>\n

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