Wrestle
USA / 2019 / 96'
Directors: Suzannah Herbert, Lauren Belfer
SYNOPSIS
Wrestle goes inside the lives of four members of the high school wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School–a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools. It is a closely observed, deeply affecting depiction of growing up disadvantaged in America.
The documentary shines a piercing light on the sorts of people that our governments would too often rather forget. – Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine
Directors: Suzannah Herbert, Lauren Belfer
SYNOPSIS
Wrestle goes inside the lives of four members of the high school wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School–a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools. It is a closely observed, deeply affecting depiction of growing up disadvantaged in America.
The documentary shines a piercing light on the sorts of people that our governments would too often rather forget. – Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine
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