
Geronimo1967
Billy (Stacy Keech) had been a jobbing boxer for most of his life, but his aged body has caused him to hang up his gloves, leaving him boozing with the permanently sozzled Oma (the scene stealing Susan Tyrell) most of the time whilst eking out an existence doing what he can to earn a buck after his career left him penniless. Whilst training at the YMCA, he comes across the enthusiastic young Ernie (Jeff Bridges) who is initially only having some fun, but is soon bent on embarking on a career that Billy reckons will follow the same trajectory of brief success and then failure that he suffered. Perhaps there is some way that he can use his own experiences to influence his young friend, but all the while Ernie is now taking advice from Ruben (...