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1934 with John “Com” Griffin, a planned, easy tuneup for' Griffin on his way to battling champion Max Baer (Craig Bierko) for the heavyweight title.

What happened over the next 12 months rekindled hope in a shattered nation and led sports writer Damon Runyon to dub Braddock “The Cinderella Man.” Howard gives the visuals a grainy, washed-out tone, and writers Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsmith employ small details to depict the desperation of the times—the haggard faces of men vying for day jobs at the docks; a clash between police and squatters in a Centrad Park shantytown; a well-off family scampering from luxury apartment to luxury car, eager to avoid contamination by the poverty around them.

The cast is outstanding. As

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