I Am Ali

"Fighter. Lover. Brother. Father."

2014 1h 51m EN

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★6.7TMDB · 89

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Synopsis

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Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.

“Fighter. Lover. Brother. Father.”

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Cast

Muhammad Ali
Self (archive footage)
Jim Brown
Self
George Foreman
Self
Tom Jones
Self
Mike Tyson
Self
Muhammad Ali Jr.
Self
Hana Ali
Self
Maryum Ali
Self

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Clare Lewins
Writers: Clare Lewins
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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AWARDS

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Directed by Clare Lewins, shot by Stuart Luck. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Mark 'Reg' Wrench shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown and George Foreman carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Fighter. Lover. Brother. Father.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt4008652 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 89 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Clare Lewins directs. Stuart Luck behind the camera. Mark 'Reg' Wrench cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 12 years ago.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Directed by Clare Lewins, shot by Stuart Luck. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Mark 'Reg' Wrench shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown and George Foreman carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Fighter. Lover. Brother. Father.".
7IMDB entry: tt4008652 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 89 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Stuart Luck
Editing: Mark 'Reg' Wrench
Sound: Roberto Cappannelli
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $7,205
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: I Am Ali (2014)

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Peter McGinn2021-10-01
★ 6/10
There are segments in this all access biopic that do indeed try to show sides of this most famous of celebrities we may not have seen before. The tapes he recorded with his children, interviews with his longtime inner circle. And it is understandable that it comes off ultimately seeming like a production from the Public Relations arm of Muhammad Ali Inc. at worst it comes off as one more forum to reflect that he was the greatest boxer, most famous celebrity, world’s best father, friend, social activist, and so on. Greatest boxer and most famous person, yeah, could be. The rest, not so much. What stood out in stark contrast to me to the 1 hour and 45 minutes of various forms of praise and good deeds, were the very few minutes showing him apologizing and regretting calling Joe Frazier a gorilla, Uncle Tom, and so on. This was Frazier, who helped Ali early on, both financially and with his efforts to regain his boxing license. Yes, it is nice that he apologized much later, but for most of us, we would have known not to say those things at all merely to build interest in a fight or get inside your opponent’s heads. Not saying those things about a friend and colleague would have been as natural as, say, a great boxer flicking out a left jab.

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