Ruth Leitman's generous, slyly tough-minded documentary about the pioneers of female wrestling features an all-star lineup of rough-talking, no-nonsense broads who escaped circumscribed futures picking cotton, caring for aging parents and waiting tables for lives of down-market glamour. They paid for their freedom in chronic injury, sexual harassment, financial uncertainty and loneliness, but they're not whiners. The girls, as they call themselves, took their lumps, gave as good as they got and survived to tell the tale. Some fared very well: Pint-size Southern firecracker Lillian Ellison, "The Fabulous Moolah," parlayed wrestling celebrity into a lucrative career ma...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins