Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15299 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-06-16
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 105 minutes

DVD Description
HBO Pictures present Tyson, the story of the talented and troubled boxing champion. Born in poverty in Brooklyn, New York, arrested 38 times by age 13, Mike Tyson's future was dark. Like many young men who turn to crime, he was sent to a juvenile center. His story might have spiraled down from there if it hadn't been for his extraordinary talents. At age 14, he became the protégé of one of boxing's legendary managers, Cus D'Amato. Through rigorous training and dedication, the course set for him turned. He became a champion. A hero. A sports' icon. The greatest fighter since Ali. He was rich, married to a beautiful actress and living in luxury. The world was at his feet until he fell from an American dream into an American nightmare.

Synopsis
An HBO-produced dramatisation of the life of former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson, chronicling his roller-coaster life from multiple-offender youth to boxing superstar to convicted rapist.

Customer Reviews

A Great Movie!
I felt this movie was a fairly detailed account of his life, as it went through the ups and downs of his life. Parts of his life that are known and certain parts that are not so well known. All the while it was very entertaining, all the fight scenes were brilliant.
The early part of his life at the beginning I found interesting, as well as what was going on in his personal life. It showed how certain aspects of his personal life had a negative effect on his boxing career.
A great movie about a man who is truely one of the greatest boxers of all time!

brilliant
I can remeber watching this many years ago and thought it was brilliant then, and my opinion is still the same.

You can see why the Guy went off the tracks once he lost his mentor/ father figure he had noone.

Great buy

good account of his early life
i think this was a good account of his early life and may give people a better understanding of tyson but a new film may be needed as it is really is the beggining....... shows how the slime don king got involved with mike which i thought was interesting and how how his wife used him