The Champ | 
| Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Actors: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder, Jack Warden, Arthur Hill
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 10064
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 121
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: TM2514
ISBN: 0790765276
UPC: 012569523326
EAN: 9780790765273
ASIN: B0000648ZW
Theatrical Release Date: April 4, 1979
Release Date: July 9, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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A young Rick Schroder makes his cute-as-all-get-out film debut in this 1979 tearjerker from director Franco Zeffirelli. Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, a former champion boxer now given to drinking, gambling, and raising his son T.J. (Schroder, billed here as Ricky) as best he can. The ups and downs of the devoted codependent pair might be enough movie on their own, but soon enough Annie (Faye Dunaway) shows up and displays a strangely protective interest in T.J. Though the plot jumps around too much to quite hold together, The Champ is certainly affecting, and all three leads take the film so earnestly that somehow it works. Voight is believable both as a boxer and as a well-intentioned screwup of a dad, and Schroder is a fine young actor (and irresistibly adorable). Special DVD features include audio commentary from Jon Voight and Rick Schroder and the documentary Behind the Scenes with the Champ. --Ali Davis
Product Description
Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, an ex-champion boxer who was KO'd by booze and gambling. When the wealthy, estranged mother of Flynn's young son begins trying to lure the boy away from him, Flynn must return to the ring to provide for his child.
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 Great movie October 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Champ
One of my 2 favorite movies, but prepare the tissues because you WILL shed a couple of tears. It's a drama so younger viewers my not appreciate it, but if you're looking for a GREAT storyline and acting, this is one to watch
 NO WHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL! August 14, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well, I know a lot of people like this film, but I have to tell it like it is!......it's not a very good remake at all! Schroder may be adorable, but he is way out of his league going up against Jackie Cooper and although the rest of the cast are top notch, this film feels like a bad TV movie! The first problem is Schroder is too young for the role to be taken for more than sympathy and it's no more than a manipulative trick. I'm not saying Schroder didn't do a fine job, but it's easy to feel sorry for such a little tike crying over his fallen hero who is also his father! If you like the story, watch the original, it's infinitely better than this Hollywood mediocre melodrama.
THE CHAMP September 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw this movie in 1979 twice actually. It will go into my "feel good"
dvd archive
The Champ April 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I seen The Champ was finally available to buy, I was besides myself with excitement. For I remember every heartbreaking scene from when I used to watch it, over and over again, when I was just a kid. The thrill of watching this film is still with me, 10 years later.
There are no words I can use to articulate quite how wonderful The Champ is. Containing one of, if not thee, greatest child actor performances, from Ricki Schroder. No human being has loved another human being, as much as this kid loves The Champ. The Champ being the character of Billy (Jon Voight), down on his luck, ex champion fighter and current gambler and wanderer, father to little JD (Schroder).
When I was nine, ten, eleven years-old this film reduced me to a distraught state of mind, literally. Heartbreaking, tender, thoughtful, enchanting, it still breaks my heart today.
Warning; The Champ contains the most heart wrenching and deeply painful scene in movie history!!...
 THE CHAMP March 15, 2007
THIS IS ONE GOOOOOOD DVD. IT MAKES YOU LAUGH AND THEN LEAVES YOU CRYING. IT WAS DELIVERED IN GOOD TIME. AND IN GREAT CONDITION.
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