Last night I went to see Fighting With My Family and I really enjoyed this biopic about WWE wrestler Saraya "Paige" Bevis. Saraya (Florence Pugh) lives in the working class English town of Norwich and wrestles with her father Patrick "Rowdy Ricky" (Nick Frost), her mother Julia "Sweet Saraya" (Lena Headey), and her brother Zak "Zodiac" (Jack Lowden) in their own wrestling league, the World Association of Wrestling. Both Saraya and Zak are invited to try-out for the WWE by Hutch Morgan (Vince Vaughn) but only Saraya is signed to NXT, the developmental league for the WWE. Zak must deal with the loss of his dream and Saraya, who changes her name to Paige after a character on her favorite TV show Charmed, must survive a grueling training program as an outsider and an underdog. She is a skilled wrestler but doesn't know how to brand herself or relate to the crowd. The movie ends when Paige is given an opportunity to fight for the Divas Championship in some scenes that will make you want to stand up and cheer. Zak must learn that teaching kids with nowhere else to go how to wrestle is important and Paige must learn that all she needs to do is be herself. It is a bit formulaic but it is also funny (especially the scenes with her parents), inspirational, and heart warming. Pugh and Lowden give earnest performances that make it easy to cheer for their characters while Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is quite funny in a cameo. I don't know much about wrestling but I had a lot of fun watching this feel-good movie and I would definitely recommend it.
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