Again writing takes second place to star placement and soapiness. That being said the film attempts to be current and relevant but it pales in comparison to "Shattered Glass" which let us connect more with a up and coming, or want to be up and coming, journalist. In Resurrecting the Champ the two main characters, Eric and Champ aren't very well fleshed out; not enough for the audience to really care about them. Eric's wife Joyce and Alan Alda's editor character let you know in just a few well written lines who they really are, but there are no just well written lines for the supposed stars of the movie. Samuel plays his character well but we really don't truly understand even in the end how he got where he was. This story seems to be about fathers and their sons but in the end the three characters that should have connected, the ones in Eric's final story, really do not connect as much as we would have liked.
Review of Resurrecting the Champ
