The Bronze (2016)

Sick Product of a Sick System

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I just saw an extremely unpleasant "comedy": The Bronze. It's about this Bronze gymnast turned coach who is constantly angry and mean to everyone including her father and her father manipulates her to train this fan of her's to get the gold in a gymnastics competition. I have not seen a movie this unfunny and mean-spirited in a long time. I hated it.

I have laugh from beginning to the end, and never feel boring during this movie. If more movies could be as good as this one it would be heaven. I don't understand why people can write bad reviews or give bad rating to this movie... It's maybe not a blockbuster, but if you want have fun watching a small funny movie with special people and special story, this movie is made for you!!! I hope this movie can have the success it deserves. And I really want to say a big thank you to every body have work on this movie, it makes people feel good to see this kind of comedy, which look like low budget but actually we can feel there is love and passion behind this movie, thanks to have pay attention to all the details and bring us this kind of fun in the life.

In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory overcomes an injury to earn an Olympic Bronze medal and becomes the national hero of the Games. In the present, she (Melissa Rauch) is a foul-mouthed, mail-stealing, pill-snorting mess living off of her past glory with her widower mailman father Stan (Gary Cole) as the biggest name in her hometown of Amherst, Ohio. When her former coach dies, she receives the suicide letter promising an inheritance of $500k if she takes over coaching Maggie Townsend (Haley Lu Richardson) to the upcoming Olympics in Toronto. Ben Lawfort (Thomas Middleditch) co-owns the gym with the late coach who Hope derisively calls Twitchy for his facial ticks. Maggie has a struggling single mom Janice (Cecily Strong). Lance Tucker (Sebastian Stan) is the national coach who has a history with Hope.This is a dark comedy that needs a few rewrites to clean up the character's emotional journey. The outline is fine and Hope is a good dark character. I like all the actors. There is some good material here but the humor is not up to snuff. Melissa plays the one-note well. Haley is cute and has good chemistry with Melissa. Thomas Middleditch is a doll and the romance is cute. This is fine but it needs to be sharper.

I avoided this movie because I saw a clip of the very raunchy looking "scene." I came across it tonight and I was blown away. It is subtle comedy, and yes, it is crass. But it is not crass in the way other movies (like Trainwreck- which I hated) do it to get a laugh. The laughs come from the situations. The character is a spoiled, self-centered, a-hole who cannot accept that her glory days are over (imagine the washed out small town high school quarterback). This is her attitude, her tough-as-nails, no b.s, cause I'm a winner kind of loser. The closest I can compare this is to Danny McBride in "Eastbound and Down." So if you like that kind of humor: the kind of pathetic jerk who can't see themselves as anything other than a champ and ends up getting a little heart (and pride kicks) along the way then you will probably enjoy this.