Magnificent Film, with one unconscionable failure

Rating: 8/10 (19 August 2018)

This film was so absorbing, so believable, with every moment and relationship depicted with a sense of truth, that I was motivated to go on Wikipedia to see how close it was to reality.
I stopped the video at one point when Jim was having a heart to heart talk with his wife, stepping out to the sidewalk so the kids wouldn't overhear it. I went back to listen again to the distant sound of a dog barking, ever so faintly. Few were aware of this and you can't stop a film in a theatre, but this exemplified the multitude of touches that was everywhere.
No throwaway scenes or conversations that didn't advance the characters and the story. In my research I noted that most everything was as is happened, all except this, which is the depiction of Max Baer, who he fought for the heavyweight title.
It wasn't that they were just opponents, but beyond the inherent violence in boxing, he was depicted as egregiously vicious, gaining pleasure not just winning but destroying his opponents, on and off the ring. So, in reading about him, I discovered this was not the man at all. He courageously wore a Star of David on his trunks, since he was a quarter Jewish, as an personal statement to the Nazis in Germany and the America of that time. He did cause the death of two of his opponents, but suffered great emotional pain, and did what he could for the families.
The turning of him into a caricature of evil personified, didn't even add to the quality of the film, as in retrospect he should have been depicted as the full human being, that was so well done for the rest of the cast.
Max Baer has descendants who don't need to have their forebear defamed, for no reason at all.