Excellent film with tour-de-force acting

Rating: 8/10 (27 April 2015)

Foxcatcher Olympic Gold medal winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) get's an offer he can't refuse from eccentric millionaire John Du Pont (Steve Carrell) over at his Foxcatcher estate, but things don't go to plan after his Olympic Gold medal winning brother David Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) joins the Foxcatcher team to train for upcoming world championships and the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games..
Excellent fact based film which shows how relationships can break down when a weird, eccentric and downright strange millionaire is introduced to the mix. Steve Carrell s superb as the odd, over-bearing and unlikeable Du Pont, who obviously has some sort of mother inferiority complex. I'm not generally a fan of his, but Channing Tatum was very good in this..in fact I felt his character's relationship with Du Pont was very similar to Matt Damon's character with Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, except with only a hint of a homosexual liaison which the real Schultz strongly denied ever happened. It's only barely hinted at, though Du Pont does come across as a repressed in the closet kind of guy. Mark Ruffalo is excellent as usual, playing the down to earth family man who unfortunately for him and his family accepts Du Ponts offer to join the Foxcatcher team. It's built up beautifully, and the moment when it does come at the end it very shocking. Recommended, and I recommend you check up the real story afterwards as it differs somewhat. 8.5/10