Play It to the Bone
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable.He wants them to box each other.They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title.
- Director
- Ron Shelton
- Worldwide
- $9M
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Cast
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What It's About
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Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas.
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Box Office & Release
Play It to the Bone returned 0.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $24M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $9M
- Release date
- Dec 25, 1999
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- United States of America
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