Play It to the Bone Movie Review 1999

Harrelson and Banderas are fading boxers and best friends Vince and Cesar, who unexpectedly wind up in an undercard bout against each other. Since they need to get to Vegas, and didn't think to get travel money from the promoter, Cesar's girlfriend (and Vince's ex) Grace (Davidovich) agrees to drive them. Along the way, she uses her wiles to whip up their competitive juices to use in the fight. It works, as the excessively brutal fight sequence shows. Shelton's fifth attempt at sports movie success doesn't quite connect, as it's mostly an uninteresting road movie with boxing-movie cliches tacked onto both ends.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 124 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Boxing, Viva Las Vegas!, Buddies, Road Trip, Romantic Triangles

Screenplay

Ron Shelton

Cast

Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas, Lolita (David) Davidovich, Lucy Liu, Tom Sizemore, Robert Wagner, Richard Masur, Willie Garson, Cylk Cozart, Jack Carter

Cinematography

Mark Vargo

Director

Ron Shelton

Music

Alex Wurman