By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)
If Southpaw is supposed to unseat the renown held by the Rocky film series, then it’s certainly drawing first blood. In one corner, we have the rising talent of Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie Nightcrawler showed him delightfully playing a seedy character and this new one sees him as Billy Hope, a distraught family man when he loses his wife, Maureen (Rachel McAdams), to a gunfire incident. To make life worse, the courts take his daughter Leila (Oona Laurence) away when he shows signs of self-destruction.
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