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Mike Tyson
Featuring: Mike Tyson
Director: James Toback
In TYSON, the former heavyweight champion looks at his own life in and out of the ring with a candor and eloquence that is by turns shocking, funny, hair-raising and never less than brutally honest. In other words, TYSON explores... MikeTyson.
James Toback’s (Fingers, The Pick-Up Artist) film portrait ranges from Tyson's earliest memories of
growing up on the meanest streets of Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing under the
stewardship of his beloved trainer Cus D’Amato. It also covers his misadventures with Don King and his
tortured marriage to Robin Givens, his rollercoaster ride through the funhouse of worldwide fame, his
fortunes won and lost.
Through a deft mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, a complex, fullyrounded
human being emerges - a legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon.
Tyson
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