Synopsis
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas.
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Cast
- Antonio BanderasCesar Dominguez
- Woody HarrelsonVince Boudreau
- Lolita DavidovichGrace Pasic
- Tom SizemoreJoe Domino
- Lucy LiuLia
- Robert WagnerHank Goody
- Richard MasurArtie
- Willie GarsonCappie Caplan
- Cylk CozartRudy
- Jack CarterDante Solomon
Recommendations
- 58
Entertainment Weekly
A boxing film with no conflictual punch. - 58
Portland Oregonian
The film is nothing much to look at and has trouble swallowing its own clichs and implausibilities. - 38
New York Daily News
Ron Shelton's boxing pic is long on road work but strictly a flyweight. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie doesn't know how odd it seems to cut from the bloodshed in the ring to the dialogue of the supporting players, who still think they're in a comedy. - 38
Philadelphia Inquirer
This is no "Raging Bull." - 30
Newsweek
A half-hearted comedy whose jokes are far from a knockout. - 25
Miami Herald
If you really love "Bull Durham," don't go near Play It to the Bone. It will break your heart. - 25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In this movie, he (Shelton) falls so hard he becomes, for the first time in his career, genuinely offensive.
