Team Foxcatcher

(2016)

★ 7 IMDb · 154 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2016

Runtime: 91 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Jon Greenhalgh

Cast: Dave Schultz, Nancy Schultz, John E. du Pont, Dan Chaid, Mark Schultz, Valentin Yordanov

Plot

With never-before seen home video, this film recounts the paranoid downward spiral of John E. du Pont and the murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz.

Team Foxcatcher (2016) is a documentary about how John du Pont used his money supposedly to help the USA Olympic Wrestling Team by building expensive training facilities on his home property, called 'Foxcatcher'. Dave Schultz, the USA's most successful wrestler at the time, was among the closest friends of John du Pont, defending him when Du Pont's bizarre activities began to cause concern among those living on the 'Foxcatcher' estate. Eventually, Schultz's loyalty to John du Pont would cost him his life.