Movie Review
'Fighting with My Family' flops harder than a wrestler from the top rope
This dramedy inspired by a charming documentary is as predictable as a WWE smackdown
A few years ago documentary director Max Fischer made a film for the UK's Channel Four called The Wrestlers: Fighting with my family. It told the story of affable working-class heroes, the Knight family of Norwich - the last great hopes of fading British wrestling and founders of their own low-level wrestling association. It showed them travelling to small towns, putting on shows for depressingly small crowds in pubs.
Patriarch Ricky Knight, supported by his devoted wife Julia, raised their children as participants in the family business and had high hopes for daughter Saraya and son Zak, who they hoped would go on to success in the pro-wrestling's super league of the US's WWE.
Their perseverance was rewarded when Saraya became the youngest non-US woman accepted into the organisation...
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