HANDS OF STONE

By Jonathan JAKUBOWICZ

VERTICAL MEDIA - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2016

NO MÁS. NO SURRENDER

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Cannes 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama, True Story, Action/Adventure
    • Countries
    • PANAMA, USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 10 - 25 M$
    • Duration
    • 120 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jonathan JAKUBOWICZ
    • Writer(s)
    • Jonathan JAKUBOWICZ
    • Producer(s)
    • Claudine JAKUBOWICZ (EPICENTRAL STUDIOS), Carlos GARCIA DE PAREDES (VERTICAL MEDIA)
    • Synopsis
    • Hands of Stone tells the story of how the legendary Roberto Duran and his mythic trainer Ray Arcel changed each other's lives. A tale of love and passion set in the heart of the Golden era of Boxing, with Duran's non-paralled rivalry with Sugar Ray Leonard as centerpiece. Two Time Academy Award Winner Robert Deniro stars as Legendary Trainer Ray Arcel, a Jew from Harlem who became the first boxing trainer to be elected in the Boxing hall of fame. He trained more than two thousand fighters in his seventy year career, and non of them was ever seriously hurt. The movie captures his come back after a retirement forced by the Madison Square Garden Mafia. Arcel decides to train Duran for free, risking his own life, and begins with him a father and son journey that will change him forever. Golden Globe Best Actor Nominee Edgar Ramirez stars as Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran. The son of an American Marine who has an affair with a local girl while occupying Panama, Duran grows up with the will to avenge his nation's pride. He fights the top American boxers in the most important arenas in North America. Next to him, Ray Arcel, an American, gives intelligence and strength to his rage. And their relationship leads Duran from rise and fall to redemption.
      Eight time Grammy Award Winner, with 43 Million Facebook Followers and currently The Coach on season Four of NBC hit Show, “The Voice”, Usher Raymond as the sports icon Sugar Ray Leonard. He was the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and is widely considered one of the best boxers of all time. Roberto Duran gave him his first defeat, and in his words taught him that "boxing is a psychological sport". Both Duran and Leonard have a karmic effect on each other's journey. They come of age as only the best opponents can in what many experts consider the biggest rivalry in the history of sport