Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 04/24/2007
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 94 min
Distributor/Studio: Image
A man decides to prove himself by learning to fight in this independent
comedy drama.
Joseph Rex (
Roy Jahangard) is an introverted middle-aged businessman who is going through a midlife crisis and needs to lose some weight.
Joseph has become the frequent butt of jokes from a self-consciously macho co-worker
Paul (
Owen McKibben), and one day
Joseph allows himself to get talked into entering an amateur boxing tournament to prove to
Paul he can go the distance.
Joseph knows he's in no shape to go into the ring, so he hires
Jake (
Adam Guertin) to train him, only to discover
Jake doesn't have much practical knowledge of the fight game. Still, with the encouragement of his best friend
Frank (
Stephen Sepher), whose romantic problems have sent him into a midlife crisis of his own,
Joseph drops thirty pounds in sixty days, and begin to look like he might just make it through the tournament after all. The first feature film for
Roy Jahangard and
Stephen Sepher -- who respectively wrote and directed the film as well as playing two of the leading roles --
One More Round also features supporting appearances from
Udo Kier and
Patrick Cranshaw.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
