Girlfight

(2000)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 198 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2000

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Карин Кусама

Cast: Мишель Родригес, Jamie Tirelli, Пол Кальдерон, Santiago Douglas, Рэй Сантьяго, Víctor Sierra, Elisa Bocanegra, Herb Lovelle, Thomas Barbour, Shannon Walker Williams

Plot

Diana Guzman, a troubled Brooklyn teenager, decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer, all while keeping it a secret from her father.

At 18, Diana has a chip on her shoulder; she's close to expulsion from high school for fighting, her mother is dead, her dad is surly, the popular girls at school set her teeth on edge, she knows men can cause pain. When she picks up her younger brother at a Brooklyn gym where he boxes to please his father, she decides she wants to train. Hector, a coach, reluctantly agrees to teach her. It's soon clear to him that Diana has talent; he pushes her. She spends time with another young fighter, Adrian, who has a girlfriend, but Diana intrigues him and stirs real feelings he tries to articulate. She, too, must accommodate her toughness and ironic detachment to her feelings for him.