Warrior
The film I watched this week was Warrior, witch was directed by Gavin O'Connor who you may know from Pride And Glory and Tumbleweeds. Gavin was also one of the writers of Warrior along with Anthony Tambakie and Cliff Dorfman. Ok so lets have a quick re-cap of the story-line shall we. When Tommy Colon, an ex-marine, and the youngest son to an alcoholic former boxer returns home to Pittsburgh. When he hears about this mixed martial arts (MMA) competition called Sparta, he decides to go to the man who trained him when he was a child, his father. Unfortunately Sparta out the fighter on a collision course with his estranged older brother. Ok shall we start with the dad of these two men Paddy Colon who is played by Nick Nolte who you may know from his work on Cape Fear and The Thin Red Line. Paddy Colon was a serious alcoholic when his kids was younger and he was extremely abusive to his wife, even in fount of the children. The only thing that Paddy knows how to do is, 1 drink