Chuck

Chuck (2017) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Philippe Falardeau. Liev Schreiber plays heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner, with Naomi Watts, Elisabeth Moss, and Ron Perlman in supporting roles.

March 1975. An unknown club fighter from Bayonne, New Jersey, goes fifteen rounds with Muhammad Ali. Wepner wakes up famous. A broke, unknown Sylvester Stallone watches the fight and writes Rocky — crediting the story to his own imagination. Wepner does not handle the fame well. The booze, the gambling, the women — the film is largely about the gap between the legend he became and the life he actually led. Moss and Watts play the women who tried to stay.

Falardeau makes sports films that are not really about sports. This one is about what it costs to be almost great. Stream Chuck (2017) online on iFILM.