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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3357805026368
Format: PAL
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 2000
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Best friends Vince (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar (Antonio Banderas) are both down-on-their-luck boxers who've suddenly been given a highly visible fight and a promised shot at the middleweight title--only they're fighting each other. With Grace (Lolita Davidovich), Cesar's current girlfriend and Vince's ex, they drive to Las Vegas. Unsurprisingly, the trip opens up hidden resentments, regrets, and mistakes from the past. What's more surprising is how meandering and shapeless Play It to the Bone is; writer-director Ron Shelton is responsible for such charming and sprightly sports films as Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, and Tin Cup, but boxing doesn't seem to have inspired him. The actual boxing match does achieve a kind of brutal energy, though it's curiously filled with gratuitous hallucinations of female nudity. Still, Harrelson and Banderas have a nice rapport, and in their best moments they just yammer at each other, not exactly listening but still communing in a kind of rhythmic groove. Also featuring Lucy Liu from TV's Ally McBeal and dozens of famous cameos at ringside during the bout. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - pretty good
both woody harrelson and antonio banderas gave great performances in this. i don't understand all the bad reviews. this deserves atleast 3 and a half stars. its pretty funny. very entertaining film. really underrated
Rating: - Hey!, Davidovich and Liu make this film worth a watch.
These two women grace the movie and it is a pleasure to watch them, especially when Lolita gets that red dress on at the end.
I don't want to give the ending away but do not think, the ending was all that predictable, I mean for the Rocky movies, we know, he's usually going to win, but there are a number of ways to get there.
So, maybe this is the first boxing movie of the new millenium; or maybe it is another Woody Harrelsen sports movie, the previous one I know of being ... Read More
Rating:  - On my short-list of "Worst Movies Ever"
I'm a fan of schlock and b-movies, so I can't honestly say that "Play it to the Bone" is the worst movie I've ever seen, at least from a technical standpoint. The cinematography is alright. It features name actors and what appears to be a budget. Compared to some of the dreck I've waddled through over the years, "Play it to the Bone" at least meets some bare minimum threshold to qualify as a movie, and that's more than I can say for, say, "Burial Ground" or "Challenge of the Lady Ninja."
On ... Read More
Rating: - Worst Movie Ever
Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson hook up with a current/ex girlfriend who gives them a ride to Vegas, where they will be boxing one another in a high profile bout. That is the basic premise of the film. At first glance, one would think that such a decent cast would make something of this movie.
Instead, we get a lot of useless yacking, arguing, and spilling of inner most secrets on the road that leave viewers yawning. How I made it to the last half hour of the movie still amazes me, because ... Read More
Rating: - Offbeat, irreverent, and sometimes....... even funny
This film has been knocked down more times than Dominguez and Boudreau in the climatic final fight scene. Sure the story was a bit uneven, but I still liked this quirky buddy/road trip movie for its unexpected and offbeat take that includes a seamier side of professional boxing. Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson are likeable stars and I thought they played off each other very well. While Harrelson is known to shift effortlessly from dramatic to comedic roles and back again, this was the first time I saw ... Read More
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