“Bang Bang” is a comedic, redemptive drama starring Tim Blake Nelson, Nina Arianda, Andrew Liner, Kevin Corrigan, Daniella Pineda and Glenn Plummer.
Back in his glory days, Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski (Tim Blake Nelson) was a beloved prizefighter boxer riding high on his success. These days he’s angry and closed off, living in his grungy house in a blue-collar Detroit neighborhood.
When Bang Bang’s estranged daughter unexpectedly drops her troublemaking teenage son off at his doorstep, it gives the bitter old man a chance at personal redemption as he trains the potential-laden kid in the ring.
While their training brings Bang Bang out of the hole he’s been living in, everyone questions his motivations, including an ex-girlfriend from decades ago who was privy to Bang Bang’s meteoric rise in the sport in the 80s. Is Bang Bang merely passing down inherited rage, or is there true altruism behind his tutelage?
Bang Bang is forced to confront everything he’s tried so hard to suppress.
“Tim Blake Nelson shines in a sentimental tribute to boxers who leave it all in the ring.” — IndieWire
“This Tribeca festival darling is award-worthy.” — Film Obsessive
“Tim Blake Nelson packs a knockout punch as a pugnacious boxer in director Vincent Grashaw’s stirring drama.” — Screen Anarchy