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The Fighter is a 2010 American biographical sports drama film directed by David O. Russell, and stars Mark Wahlberg (who also produced), Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Melissa Leo. The film centers on the lives of professional boxer Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and his older half-brother and former boxer Dicky Eklund (Bale).
Michael Farris Smith is an American writer from Mississippi.As of 2023, Smith has published seven novels: The Hands of Strangers (2011), Rivers (2013), Desperation Road (2017), The Fighter (2018), Blackwood (2020), Nick (2021), and Salvage This World (2023).
A reading of the story by Alan Maitland has been broadcast "nearly every Christmas since 1979" in Canada on the CBC Radio One news programme As It Happens. [1]On 14 December 2014, actor Nigel Anthony performed an original adaptation by Amber Barnfather of The Shepherd, with music and sound effects, at St Clement Danes, the Central Church of the Royal Air Force, in London.
The Fight is a 1975 non-fiction book by Norman Mailer about the boxing title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman at Kinshasa in Zaire in 1974, known as the "Rumble in the Jungle". Summary [ edit ]
Jack Boucher is an orphan who is adopted by a woman named Mary Anne and gives him a happy life. As an adult, Jack becomes an underground pit fighter called the Slayer with unbeatable track record to win big money to pay off his debt to a crime lady named Big Momma Sweet after borrowing her money for his mother's medical treatment.
The Kite Fighters is a 2000 historical children's novel that was written by Linda Sue Park and illustrated by her father Eung Won Park. [1] It was first published on March 20, 2000, through Clarion Books and follows two brothers in Korea during the 15th century.
Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.It was Palahniuk's first published novel, and follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia.The protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups, after his doctor remarks that insomnia is not "real suffering" and that he should find out what it is really like to suffer.
Son of Angels is a series of young adult Christian fiction novels by Jerel Law. [1] [2] The first book in the series, Spirit Fighter, was released on April 3, 2012, through Thomas Nelson and the second, Fire Prophet, was released on December 11, 2012.