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Joe and Max is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 3 march 2002 with Leonard Roberts
Joe and Max (2002)
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Add to a movie listJoe and Max is a 2002 American-German boxing film directed by Steve James and based on the true story of the two boxing matches between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling.
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In 1936 African American boxer Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts), trained by Jack Blackburn (Richard Roundtree), is undefeated and apparently invincible. Then Jewish-American boxing manager Joe Jacobs (David Paymer) obtains a film of his fight against Paulino Uzcudun in Madison Square Garden. Jacobs delivers the film to his client, German heavyweight champion Max Schmeling (Til Schweiger). A pioneer of video analysis, Schmeling discovers how Louis always neglects his guard when he has just delivered a certain blow. Schmeling decides to seek a fight with Louis. The next year they fight in the United States. The German, who is nine years Louis's senior, surprises everybody by winning.Actors
Leonard Roberts
(Joe Louis)
Til Schweiger
(Max Schmeling)
Peta Wilson
(Anny Ondra)
Richard Roundtree
(Jack Blackburn)
David Paymer
(Joe Jacobs)
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